Quotes about Struggle

price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

Churches that never deal with the real fight that following My Son requires often grow large but mostly with small Christians.

Mor had said she would pray for them. One side of Signe's mind said, Bosh, a waste of time. But the other side, the one that grew up praying and believing that God was indeed real and in His heaven, that He cared about His people here on earth and listened to their cries—that part fought to break free from the chest where she had banished it.

big house to the slave quarters was nothing short of miraculous as far as

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.