Quotes about Struggle

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.

By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man…. Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!

The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

Some problems build character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Indeed in all ages Satan seems to have fought more violently against free justification by faith than against any other teaching, striving to extinguish it and smother it.