Quotes About Struggle

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Between the intention and the act, life was often a tale told to the deaf. •

What killed expert swimmers practicing underwater laps in pools was not a strangling on water but the soft oblivion of oxygen deprivation. At the end they no more than gently stirred, even if in the last lit cell in their brain they were still stroking powerfully ahead.

Drunks sagged and leaned like broken pickets on a fence.

that overwhelming desire to find a way to succeed, if only to be spared public humiliation.

looks promising and I've taken it up again on occasion. But whenever I did, I realized why I'd not carried on in the first place – in the same way that a specialist might say of a child, that one's not going to grow up right. I could tell that it wouldn't develop into a finished picture.

Such hope. It breaks your heart.

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can't when they finish.

Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans.

We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressor

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

No great saint lived without errors.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history