Quotes about Struggle

Then, with many false starts and blank feet, returning and filling and erasing painfully as she went, she began to write again, knowing with a deep inner certainty that somehow, after long and bitter wandering, she was once more in her own place. Here, then, at home …

They accept for themselves everything that was affirmed of creative life incarnate, including the love and, if necessary, the crucifixion, death, and victory. Looking at what happened to that life, they will expect to be saved, not from danger and suffering, but in danger and suffering.

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

The great do not always prevail.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Perhaps your spirit is sour, cold, indifferent, and God asks what is wrong. He knows why you are like that, but He wants you to tell Him. He wants you to confess that you have feared and panicked, that you have questioned His purpose and plan for your life. You have doubted His Word and His promises, and you have failed to renew before God every day the anointing of His Spirit, so that you have become spiritually stale.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.