Quotes About Struggle

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.

Unhappiness was my god.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

True poverty does not come from God.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.