Quotes about Struggle
There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
— Eugene Peterson
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
— Charles Spurgeon
I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
— JI Packer
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.
— John Ortberg
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are real, and they affect the way police departments have acted toward Black Americans.
— Conor Lamb
You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.
— Bob Goff
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
— E Stanley Jones
Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.
— Milan Kundera
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
— AW Tozer
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
— Margaret Atwood
Every temptation is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom.
— Rick Warren