Quotes about Struggle

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place. We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.

At the end of the day, in spite of the risks, do life with your people. They need to see you struggle and process your day-to-day walk with Christ. They need to see you desire community, and you need to see transformation take place among your community.

I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.

Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.

Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!

We shall overcome, we shall overcome,We shall overcome some dayOh, deep in my heart I do believeWe shall overcome some day.

Give us Lord, a bit o' sun, A bit o' work and a bit o' fun; Give us all in the struggle and sputter Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.

The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.