Quotes about Struggle

Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

Adversity reminds men of religion.