Quotes about Struggle
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
- Harriet Tubman
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
- Bernice King
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
- John Adams
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
- Carl Jung
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
- Ted Dekker
I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.
- Tony Evans
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
- Vance Havner
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
- George Whitefield
I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.
- Gia Coppola
The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.
- Pope Benedict XVI
My father was desperately trying to be a legal contributor to this society.
- Diane Guerrero
It's hard to see your wife deteriorate in front of your eyes.
- Jeremy Camp