Quotes About Struggle

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

a feat which is not unlike tryin' to hold a large beach ball under water while doin' needlepoint

Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man's creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God.

If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make it easy, but not so much they grew tired of you.

More than anything, the Nazis robbed families: of their livelihoods, their opportunities, their heirlooms, their mementos, of the things that identified them and defined them as human beings.

Harry's grades dropped noticeably. This wasn't the result of ostracism or intimidation—that did occur, but Harry was never beaten or physically bullied by his

They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God. With

It is also a near-perfect summary of what happens in the void of war and how history is more often than not a messy combination of intention, courage, preparation, and chance. If

I remember sitting at the witness table listening to this litany of woe and thinking, What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.

As the struggle continued, Mason abandoned his plan to seize the camp intact for its booty, grabbed a firebrand, and set it aflame. As the eighty closely packed huts, which housed 800 Indians, went up in smoke, the Pequots poured out of the stockade to meet death from English and Narraganset swords and muskets. Others - hundreds of them - remained huddled inside the huts and were burned, women and children, old and young, "in promiscuous ruin." The

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

His will was weakening; he recognised the signs.

easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.

when they're bathed in blood everyday you can't expect them to rise from it stainless the next morning.

It is as if mankind is trying to . . . obliterate itself, and every beautiful thing that it has made.

twenty yards to go—he could see a laundry truck rumbling by on the street—and

she did not want to have to explain to him that while the world was fighting a so-called "master race" intent on ruthlessly exterminating people that they judged inferior or impure, America itself was still a stronghold of racism and discrimination.

rent limb from limb, Anthony had been

We are defined as much by our enemies as we are by our friends,