Quotes about Struggle
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
— GK Chesterton
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
— Henry Ward Beecher
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations.
— Terri Blackstock
Ben's chances in the campaign.
— Terri Blackstock
He sank in emotion, but kept praying, lifting Beth up to the throne of heaven, laying her in the arms of God, begging him for healing. Even Logan, who usually prayed in halting one-sentence prayers, talked openly to God, appealing to the Creator of the universe to pull Beth from the edge of death.
— Terri Blackstock
He who flees will fight again...
— Tertullian
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
— Tertullian
Ever since his first attack
— St. Therese of Lisieux
We are not as yet in our true country, and as gold is tired in the fire so must our souls be purified by temptation.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Is the Black Church Dead? Or, Can These Bones Live?
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile