Quotes about Struggle
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
— Madeleine Albright
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.
— John Eldredge
the reason there are so many struggling women is because there were so many wounded girls.
— John Eldredge
There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.
— John Eldredge
And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.
— John Eldredge
In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows
— John Eldredge
The first line grabs me by the throat. "Therefore we do not lose heart." Somebody knows how not to lose heart? I'm all ears. For we are losing heart. All of us. Daily. It is the single most unifying quality shared by the human race on the planet at this time. We are losing—or we have already lost—heart.
— John Eldredge
In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost.
— John Eldredge
To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.
— John Eldredge
Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life.
— John Eldredge