Quotes About Struggle

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

No life is messier than one in ministry

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

All my labors are marred by sin and imperfection. As I think of every act I have ever done for God, I can only cry out, 'Oh, God, forgive the iniquity of my holy things.'"5

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.

verse of Scripture I often use in the face of failure with my own sins is Proverbs 24:16: "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." The person who is disciplining himself toward holiness falls many times, but he doesn't quit. After each failure he gets up and continues the struggle.

In many ways, our sinful flesh acts as a mole. It is constantly responding to the allurements of the world and the enticements of the devil, and is constantly seeking to collaborate with them. And so we are very vulnerable spiritually. The

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God.

Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient!

God does not always restrain the wicked and harmful actions of others toward His people.

Adversity is difficult even when we know God is in control of our circumstances.

Christians are viewed unfavorably in much of the world today and in many countries face outright persecution from hostile governments.

Our first problem is that our attitude toward sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success-oriented, not because we know it's offensive to God.

Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

But God never explains to us what He is doing, or why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings.

contrast, there are sixteen whys in the book of Job, according to author Don Baker.6 Sixteen times Job asked God why. He is persistent and petulant. He is accusatory toward God. And, as has been observed by many, God never answered Job's why. Instead He answered who.

asking a demanding why of God.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ROMANS 7:21

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for