Quotes about Struggle

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

Oftentimes, the hottest fires of hell are fueled from within.

You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

Sometimes a Christian has such confused thoughts that he can say nothing but, as a child, cries, `O Father', not able to express what he needs, like Moses at the Red Sea. These stirrings of spirit touch the heart of God and melt him into compassion towards us, when they come from the Spirit of adoption, and from a striving to be better.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and from Satan, who labors to fasten on us a loathing of duty.