Quotes about Struggle

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

Only in the Christian life does surrender bring victory.

Jesus comes to you in the midst of the struggle, when the battle is almost unbearable and the circumstances look impossible. With the voice of absolute certainty and strength, He speaks to you

2 Timothy 3:1. Here it is in the Amplified Bible: "But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear].

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

When God wrestled with Jacob, He wasn't fighting only for the heart of a man; He was warring for His dream!

To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one's feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father's right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down.