Quotes About Hardship

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, 'Go outside and play in the culture,' and the culture -- relatively innocent, and boring -- could be more or less trusted to bring the kids up. Grown ups now know that you can't send the kids out to play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed.

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it's not only the best answer but the only one.

No matter the hardship, offer it up to the Holy Spirit," she enjoined me throughout my life. What did she know that she couldn't disclose that day? Then, the Holy Spirit revealed the truth. We didn't need a memorial twenty-five years ago to repair our relationship. Instead, we needed the Holy Spirit and the fruit thereof: peace, joy, charity, patience, kindness, gentleness, generosity, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control.

Don't mistake good with easy. Sometimes the two are companions. Often they are polarized. Much like a grand marriage.

Nothing worthwhile ever comes easily

Well, life is very cruel. Very.' 'I would say', said Giles, 'it was death that was cruel. Not life.

Fleur who had started from nothing, who had no rich parents

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

I Fall upon the thorns of life....

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israelís sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.