Quotes about Struggle
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
— Barbara Kingsolver
We are certainly damaged people. The question is, finally, do we use that damage, that first-hand knowledge of oppression, to recognize each other, to do what work we can together? Or do we use it to destroy?
— Barbara Smith
Even being a Christian, you go through hard times. But you either go through hard times not having hope or realizing that Jesus is the only hope.
— Jeremy Camp
We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.
— Andre Iguodala
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
— Henri Nouwen
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.
— Jay-Z
'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.
— Shura
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.
— Joyce Meyer
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
— John Piper
I happen to believe there is evil in the world.
— John Kennedy
No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.
— Jeremy Camp