Quotes About Struggle

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

Misfortune was my god.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who've been taken from us too soon.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

God won't give you more than you can handle.'" Holiday chuckled. "And we just wish He didn't trust us so much, right?

God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.