Quotes about Struggle
Sometimes I was incredibly frustrated and angry, wondering how these extremes could exist in the same world, let alone in the same church. Sometimes I just got cynical. That was the easiest thing to feel, as cynicism takes very little energy.
— Shane Claiborne
We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light.
— Shane Claiborne
To cling to the gift of life we've been given and scramble to protect our own interests is to cooperate in a culture of death that threatens to destroy us all.
— Shane Claiborne
So for those of us who have nearly given up on the church, may we take comfort in the words of St. Augustine: "The Church is a whore, but she's my mother." She
— Shane Claiborne
It's not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places of struggle. Whenever we have triumphed and dominated, we get sick. Christianity is best when it is humble.
— Shane Claiborne
I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
— Frederick Buechner
With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.
— John Maxwell
Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.
— Anonymous
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
— John Stott
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
— Pope John Paul II
Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.
— Nikki Giovanni