Quotes about Struggle
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
— Charles Dickens
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
— Thomas Merton
It's the impeded stream that sings.
— Wendell Berry
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
— CS Lewis
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
When you're in trouble, God will reach into the mess and pull you out.
— Bishop TD Jakes
both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.
— Bishop TD Jakes
No matter how hard you might try, you can't escape the spiritual bond between you and your Maker. You can't drink it away. You can't smoke it away. You can't sex it away.
— Bishop TD Jakes
It's the nights that I cried myself to sleep and my tears crawled across the bridge of my nose that God most often used to develop me into the person I am today.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Divorce is not merely separating; it is the tearing apart of what was once joined together.
— Bishop TD Jakes