Quotes about Struggle

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

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.

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.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

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.

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

The pain was on the surface, so it took all his will to reach upward. But maybe that's what God asked of man. To reach upward even when it's hard.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that 'seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.