Quotes about Struggle

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.

Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ

We're more concerned about our own victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.