Quotes about Struggle

days of spiritual dryness, doubt, and estrangement from God as "the dark night of the soul.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.