Quotes About Struggle

Satan, whose very first act toward man was to question the goodness of God, will even plant the thought in our minds that God is up in heaven mocking us in our distress.

My own experience suggests that Satan attacks us far more in the area of God's love than either His sovereignty or His wisdom.

We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, "and even make a commitment of sorts to put it out of our lives…..We would like to be rid of that sin, and even pray to God to take it away, but are we willing to say no to it?

in order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

To mortify sin we must focus on its true nature. So often we are troubled with a persistent sin only because it disturbs our peace and makes us feel guilty. We need to focus on it as an act of rebellion against God

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

John Owen said, "When [indwelling sin] is least felt, it is in fact most powerful."[2]

Our motive for obedience is just as important, probably more so, to God than the level of our performance. A person who struggles with some persistent sin but does so out of love for God is more pleasing to Him than the person who has no such struggle but is proud of his or her self-control. Of course, the person who obeys from a motive of love will be concerned about his or her performance. There will be a sincere desire and an earnest effort to please God in every area of life.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

My mind is a reasonable sort of fellow. But my heart . . .my heart has never been able to understand loss.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.

Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That's what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife, by Walker Evans (version published in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men). From a print in a private collection, trimmed under Evans's direction and signed by him in 1971.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

Just because I'd kicked junk, after all, did not mean I'd kicked being a junkie. And junkies lie. It's their primary addition.