Quotes About Struggle

Once you have ventured the decisive act, you are at odds with the life of this world. You come into collision with it, and because of this you will gradually be brought into such tension that you will then be able to become certain of what Christ taught. You will begin to understand that you cannot endure this world without having recourse to Christ. What else can one expect from following the truth?

To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself—this is the formula for all despair.

The truth is: to become a Christian is to become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life; the proportion is: the more you involve yourself with God and the more he loves you, the more you will become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life, the more you will come to suffer in this life

That instant he dies – for one who does not understand that the whole power of the spirit is required for dying, and that the hero always dies before he dies, that man will not get so very far with his conception of life.

Whenever the individual after he has entered the universal feels an impulse to assert himself as the particular, he is in temptation (Anfechtung), and he can labor himself out of this only by abandoning himself as the particular in the universal.

To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial

those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

By my own strength I am able to give up the princess, and I shall not become a grumbler, but shall find joy and repose in my pain ; but by my own strength I am not able to get her again, for I am employing all my strength to be resigned. But by faith, says that marvellous knight, by faith I shall get her in virtue of the absurd.

For when faith is eliminated by becoming null or nothing, then there only remains the crude fact that Abraham wanted to murder Isaac – which is easy enough for anyone to imitate who has not faith, the faith, that is to say, which makes it hard for him. 1

Ningún caballero de la fe puede ayudar a otro. O bien se convierte el mismo Particular en caballero de la fe, pues cargó con la paradoja, o bien no llega nunca a serlo. En esa esfera resulta impensable cualquier compañerismo.

La hora del dolor puede volvernos altivos, si es que no nos quiebra: en ella, nada se ha quebrado…

Because change is difficult," Shiloh said. "As with letting go of anything, a memory, a relationship . . . even the bad seems better than the nothingness that might take its place. We know this.

I had a hell of a time getting here, brother," I revealed when we had finished trading insincerities.

you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.

Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward

He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn't driven her away. "I'm not sure I know how to love, Louisa." She took his hand. "Don't be silly. Loving is easy. It's finding someone to love you back that's hard.

The strange thing about being a mother is how often I'm interrupted. Like something is happening and then something else is happening. It is difficult to get a good grasp on things.

There are so many people, and they are so beautiful and hopeful. And they too are covered in holes. They each carry a bucket. And in each bucket is a hole. This is the song we're in.

I keep on making myself little goals, but every time I achieve one of them. I'm forced to face up to the fact that nothing has changed. The thing that is still wrong and always will be. But that's too difficult to face, so all I can do is to pick another goal and start again.

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.

The thought of squeezing back into his stifling pre-war life stopped his breath in panic. In truth, the only time he breathed easily was with Harry, whom he loved with that same red raw ferocity — and whom he'd love with passion given the chance. But he wouldn't get that chance. The world forbade it.

Oh sometimes it does, Carter

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake