Quotes about Struggle
God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.
— Samuel Rutherford
T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
— Samuel Rutherford
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
— Alice Walker
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
— John Newton
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
— Anais Nin
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.
— Mark Dever
It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you
— Oprah Winfrey
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
— Anne Lamott
The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.
— Junipero Serra
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.
— Nicole Kidman