Quotes About Struggle

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.

A Christian is commanded to warm-hearted service; he must charge through the whole army of his lusts, every one of which is stronger than Goliath.

Lusts within are worse than lions without.

God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Better is that temptation which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

Self-love raises a sickbed vow, and love of sin will prevail against it. Trust not to a passionate resolution; it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm.

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

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Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.

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trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

We do what we can. We push on, Esteban, as best we can. It isn't for long, you know. Time keeps going by. You'll be surprised at the way time passes.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?