Quotes about Struggle

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.

The Dark Night of the Soul.

But Our Lady allowed this trouble to befall me for the good of my soul; without it, vanity might have crept into my heart, whereas now I was humbled, and looked at myself with profound contempt. My God, Thou alone knowest all that I suffered.

To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.