Quotes About Struggle

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.