Quotes about Struggle

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.

When we see around us the tragedy of not taking this truth seriously and when we experience within ourselves the veracity of the truth, we will be positioned to move forward in our spiritual progress. We also will have a different attitude toward those who more obviously struggle in areas where we might only secretly have a problem. Day by day, an awareness of our condition will help us grow spiritually.

A deep distress hath humanised my soul.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts