Quotes About Struggle

A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.

A. W. Tozer, who said, "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.

Como un cristiano ateo que lucha, tengo mis preguntas y dudas sobre Dios, pero estoy agradecido de que como el hombre ciego que fue sanado, no me hace falta entenderlo todo para creer.

you might not have strong faith unless you push-through some honest doubts. In order to decide to trust, you have to let yourself doubt.

Pain in the moment, and hope for the future. But sometimes the pain seems to yell, while hope only whispers.

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

the more God wants to use you, the more likely you'll be tempted to quit.

To really know God, you have to wrestle through pain, struggle with honest doubts, and even live with unanswered questions. So while I won't promise you that God is your copilot or that the Bible says it and that settles it, I will promise you this: if you wrestle with him, seek him, cling to him, God will meet you in your pain.

Los cristianos ateos podemos buscar la lógica de todo tipo de excusas posibles con tal de no perdonar. Sin embargo, los cristianos pueden encontrar en Dios la fuerza que les hace falta para luchar contra los sentimientos de ira, odio y amargura, y abrirse paso así de regreso a la cruz.

your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

But no, your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make—and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don't get back up.

I keep it in there as a reminder and to keep temptation at hand. Temptation out of reach does you no good.

If you're looking at the weather, it's shitty, with a chance of shittier.

Between the thermals, downdrafts, and quirky winds, I wasn't sure how anybody kept the things aloft except with a liberal application of positive thought.

I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we could to hold off the eternity of distance—anything to give the landscape some sort of human scale. No matter what we did to try and form the West, however, the West inevitably formed us instead.

It is difficult to confront madness, because insanity is a stranger to reason and any reasonable response would be insane.

stop groaned with the wind that had

How could she let herself get involved in an abusive relationship like that?" "You mean the daughter you raised?" I didn't say anything. "It can happen to anyone, that's the point.

Craig Johnson

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

I couldn't help but make a growling noise. "How long does she have?" "I don't know, but the airspace in her chest cavity is growing and has collapsed the lung; it's now crowding her heart, Walter, to the point that it will no longer be able to pump the blood needed to keep her alive." I set my jaw. "Well, we're going to have to get all western on this, aren't we?

Sometimes I get to where I feel like I'm the only one getting it in the shorts in this life, you know?