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Quotes About Struggle

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.
~ J. C. Ryle
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.
~ Jean-Pierre de Caussade
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
~ John Crowe Ransom
God tests His people through hardship.
~ John Piper
Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.
~ Al Green
My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I'd like it to be. I'm a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.
~ Anne Marie Miller
God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.
~ Brother Roger
Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.
~ Timothy Keller
Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
~ Tupac Shakur
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
~ William Ralph Inge
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
~ Eduardo Galeano
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
~ Elie Wiesel
That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
~ Garrison Keillor
It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
~ George Michael
This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.
~ James MacDonald
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It's hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God's will. It's hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you're not supposed to have emptiness.
~ Miriam Toews
There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?
~ Og Mandino
God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
~ Robert Burns