Quotes About Struggle

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway...

God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives