Quotes about Struggle
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.
- Jim Cymbala
If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
- Martin Luther
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
- David Jeremiah
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
- Martin Luther
Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
- Anne Lamott
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Anne Lamott
Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.
- Stormie Omartian
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.
- Dorothy Day