Quotes about Struggle

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

While many good friends stood by us and stood up for us, we knew that we had obviously become a problem for the majority. So taking great care not to split the church by forcing people to take sides, we quietly left.

As I look back on my life, it saddens me to acknowledge that some of my most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people — Gods people.

But God loved Hagar. He loves those who just can't take it anymore and who run away. In fact, the Bible is filled with stories of His love for those like Hagar.

Did your big break turn into a big bust? Sometimes a great escape from a wounded past can turn into something worse as we discover the wounds were not just from without, but they were within. So regardless of where we go, what we do, who we are with, we carry those wounds with us.

God's people don't always act like God's people should.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

I turned to God but for a while I wasn't doing it properly.