Quotes about Struggle

There is so much of politics in sport that I sometimes wonder how did I survive for such a long time.

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I probably suffered with depression.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.