Quotes about Struggle

If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

I think C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

It was a star, Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...