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Quotes About Struggle

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
~ Fred Melamed
Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.
~ Friedrich Schiller
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
~ H. L. Mencken
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.
~ Henri Nouwen
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
~ Honore de Balzac
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
~ Jim Bakker
I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.
~ John Maynard Smith
God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.
~ John Muir
God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
~ Junot Diaz
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
~ Lord Byron
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles
~ Mark Salzman
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
~ Mary Doria Russell
What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?
~ Mary Oliver
God will defeat the great infidels.
~ Mohammed Omar
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
~ Paulo Coelho
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.
~ Richard Baker
It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
~ Richard Rohr
Oh God, make me good, but not yet.
~ SebastiAn
What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry?
~ Spencer Haywood
The gods have become our diseases.
~ C.G. Jung