Quotes About Struggle

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.