Quotes About Struggle

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.