Quotes about Struggle
The whole difficulty is that we wish to pray in the Spirit and at the same time walk after the flesh. This is impossible.
— Andrew Murray
Sin which is not confessed is also not combated
— Andrew Murray
Amid the painful consciousness of ignorance and unworthiness, in the struggle between believing and doubting, the heavenly art of effectual prayer is learnt.
— Andrew Murray
The weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly, and to let God help you.
— Andrew Murray
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
— Samuel Johnson
If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated: tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language.
— Samuel Johnson
Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.Shak.As you like it. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity
— Samuel Johnson
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!
— Samuel Johnson
This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.
— Samuel Johnson
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
— Samuel Johnson
Sainthood does not mean sinlessness.
— Scott Hahn
In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.
— Scott Hahn