Quotes about Struggle

O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Religion is lived by people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.

There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. For Jesus and for his followers, the crucifixion became the dramatic symbol of that necessary and absurd stumbling stone.

The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.