Quotes about Struggle

It is in deep waters that God teaches us to swim.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

N-am avut puterea s? te înl?tur din viaÃ…£a mea când, biologic, planetar, emoÃ…£ional, metafizic, psihanalitic, ar fi trebuit.

Oh! my Lord Jesus, though I do not understand it, though I cannot grasp it, though my struggles avail nothing, I am not going to let Thee go. If it is possible for a sinner on earth to have Jesus every day, every hour, and every moment in resurrection power dwelling in his heart, shining within him, filling him with love and joy,—if that is possible, I want it.

Notice how Christ uses that word deny twice. He said to Peter the first time, "Deny himself" (Matthew 16:24); He said to Peter the second time, "Thou shalt deny me" (Matthew 26:34). It is either of the two. There is no other choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. There are two great powers fighting each other the self-nature in the power of sin, and Christ in the power of God. Either of these must rule within us.

Brother, the act of faith, by which you accept and enter this life in the New Covenant, is not commonly an act of power, but often of weakness and fear and much trembling.

It was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

It is often spiritual laziness that, under the appearance of humility, professes to have no will, because it fears the trouble of searching out the will of God, or when found, the struggle of claiming it in faith.