Quotes about Struggle

the truth is that we are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard.

If everything came easy, we wouldn't know what it felt like to truly succeed.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.

Licitis perimus omnes

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.