Quotes About Struggle

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13)

I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

That's where faith comes in. I've struggled more with being away from her. She keeps me strong. Being away from her means I have to stay in the Word and to stay strong throughout the season.

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.