Quotes About Struggle

In the struggle between the "needs" of the soul and the "wants" of the body, satisfy the soul first for it carries also the riches of the body.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

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Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

He created the way out, and He leads us to the way out, but it certainly isn't easy.

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

All through the day, there are two voices that compete for your attention - the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. Tune into the voice of faith because it is the voice of victory!

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up, " I whispered."Don't give up, " she whispered back.

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.