Quotes About Struggle

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....

it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

He hated confronting those lost moments, being presented with some detail from his past and having to look on it like a stranger. It made his life feel like a made-up thing. A net full of holes.

He'd almost forgotten how much he loved the cigarettes, what a poisonous comfort they were.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and blood. Our early martyrs were real men and women, with their own personalities, their flaws and their greatness. We are no different.

It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess." "Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?" "Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon." "Just as it should be. Commence.

Of course it's not right. The Cross isn't right. But our Lord took it and turned it into the great sign that the devil hates above all other signs. Each time we accept to bear that cross and be nailed to it, believing against all believing - when it's impossible any longer to believe because of our pain - that's when we defeat him. By the blood of the Lamb!

It is very hard. Man longs for a permanent home. But he does not know it until it is torn away from him.

Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light.

I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.

The serpent hated the light and knew he had no power to hurt it, except through its creatures.

You weren't distracted by evil things, for the enemy knows that you have been converted from them. He drew you away by legitimate pleasures.

He will console you at certain times, but the greater work is to do His will in the darkness of faith. Faith is of utmost importance.

The entire world is infected. These times have bludgeoned the perceptions of man with so much horror that the mind recoils. Evil of such magnitude shakes existence to its very core. One either believes or he doesn't. We choose. My wife told me something surprising once.

She knew many survivors of the Holocaust. She said that for some, their experience destroyed their faith in a good God. Others believed more deeply than ever.