Quotes about Struggle

Somewhere deep within the tormented man there is a tormented child who feels doomed to torment others!

The finished product you see on the peaks is the end result of the resurrection in the valley.

But you see, it is the wilderness that weeds out the saints from the "aint's.

It's bitterness that drives you to alcohol or drugs or food or pornography or anything else as a method of coping with your season of suffering. When you've been consumed by bitterness, you develop a desire to consume anything that will get the taste out of your mouth—

It is from the depths of dark and dirty places in our lives that we scream for God's attention and help while misunderstanding that, just like with a natural seed, it is the microbes in the soil of life that eat away at our efforts to protect ourselves from harm.

God doesn't cut us to kill us but to heal us. It's the difference between experiencing the blade of a dagger in a back-alley attack and the blade of a scalpel in an operating room.

A pearl of great price is our pain wrapped in God's perfection.

People tend to glorify the past, especially when they are struggling with the future.

Even in the moments of your greatest anguish, you often find unexpected blessings alongside and commingled with your losses.

Even the most voluptuous of fast-paced and lace-clad women cannot console the anguish of masculine tears blocked and cries muffled. Broken men try to mask their hurts behind empty emblems of success, but hidden behind those frail facades are screaming hearts bound in a forced silence.

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

I ain't one to question the Lord's goodness, but sometimes it sure feels like he can give a body too much to bear, don't it?