Quotes about Struggle

Condemnation is only trying to fight fear with fear.

It's not that Christianity has failed; it's that so few Christians have really tried it. If you were in the truth, you would know love without fear. You think you're saved from some future hell, but as you can see, it's all around you. Fear has invaded you and blinded you to the light.

He who is of little faith looks for support and protection for his faith, because it is preyed upon by fear.

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

One of things I find really irritating is when people say, 'You need to exercise, it'll make you feel better.' When you are in the deepest, darkest hole, that is the last thing that you can imagine doing.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?