Quotes About Struggle

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

God save me from myself.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up