Quotes about Struggle

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It's still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, 'Be slow to anger.'

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

I'm proud of my father, but my pride cannot be fully measured by that snapshot in history. Because contrary to first glance, my father's legacy comes not from his presiding over the final act in the drama of fighting for equal rights - his legacy is about setting the stage.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.