Quotes About Struggle

The lies that capture us as Christians usually seem to fit well within the borders of our Christianity.

I loved my family, but that night in the car I hit the wall of the reality of relationships in a fallen world.

They have all faced the difficulty of having relationships with flawed people in a broken world, and they have opted to check out.

brings to mind the tribulations of those groups—blacks in the 19th century, women in the 20th, gays in the 21st—who have learned through struggle that freedom is not given, only claimed.

But they simply didn't know Sammy in the late hours, all his virulent bedtime prayers whispered away into his folded hands, releasing his worry and anxiety over the sinful so he could sleep well and fight the devil again in the daylight. And, easefully and kindly, he'd hold Abby in his arms, becoming just as lost as everyone else, just as blind in the dark.

Some believed that Satan had come to earth in human form as a party activist, his collective farm register a book of hell, promising torment and damnation.

It was easier to triumph in violence that it was to make a new order.

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!" Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: "Nay, come, let's go together.

Hitler and Stalin both accepted a late-nineteenth-century Darwinistic modification: progress was possible, but only as a result of violent struggle between races or classes.

The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A

Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.

If past and future contained nothing but struggle and scarcity, all attention fell upon the present. A psychic resolve for relief from a sense of crisis overwhelmed the practical resolve to think about the future. Rather

when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster." What we need, he thinks, are "riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.

there is nothing, in fact, which man cannot be forced to do by hunger and pain." Herling became convinced "that a man can only be human under human conditions." From

A planetary vision of bloody racial struggle, something not inherently attractive to most people most of the time, was translated at moments of stress into concepts and images that could generate political support.

Adolf Hitler claimed that all that mattered was the struggle of the race, and that the elimination of Jews would restore nature's eternal balance. His Thousand-Year Reich lasted twelve years, and he committed suicide. A state does not endure because a leader mystifies a generation.

For a man like Bob Marley, life and Jah were one and the same. Marley saw Jah as being the gift of existence; that is, he believed that he, Bob Marley, was in some way eternal, and that he would never be duplicated. He believed that the singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. He believed the process of that struggle becomes, in time, the truth.

Where does God live if not in the shadows of struggle, marching next to the living, with battlements and a slogan, knowing faintly more than we do?

I chewed into the wreck of the world, into the neckbone of the past that pursued me. All the while, I moved toward extinction, bearing the burden of damage, language of the protector.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.