Quotes about Struggle

America can't beat anyone anymore.

I want to win, I've still got the fire in the belly to win, it's just the old utensils are not working as good as they used to.

I went to Los Angeles for acting, and I thought that's where I wanted to go, and I found out that I didn't belong there.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

With David, I sometimes sigh, "How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my hear? How long will my enemy triumph over me?"1

Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy.

Gut-wrenching questions honor God. Despair directed at God is a way of encountering him, opening ourselves up to the One and only Someone who can actually do something about our plight. And whether we, like Greg, collide with the Almighty or simply bump up against him, we cannot be the same. We never are when we experience God.

Yes, disability is terribly difficult and chronic pain can eat away at your peace of mind.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?