Quotes about Struggle

Hous vivons aux temps des assassins —"we live in days of assassins"—where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.

People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.

The greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God.

Yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars—the one waged within.

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

The temptation that comes from without does not necessarily weaken character; indeed, when conquered, it affords an opportunity for holiness to increase.

Only those who walk in darkness ever see the stars.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.