Quotes about Struggle

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

You have to fight great battles to guard your mind, extraordinary battles to protect your heart, and remarkable battles to defend your soul.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests'.