Quotes about Struggle

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.