Quotes About Struggle

The ones who didn't lose faith found a meaning beneath the horror." "What was the meaning?" "They understood that the powers of evil must have felt threatened to unleash such malice against people of faith.

do not understand why death is still at work. I think its time is short, and it will fiercely fight to the last gasp. It is this gasp we now endure. Until it is finished, evil will go on casting insults into the secret face of God and use us too!

Sex is class warfare. You must understand your weapon if you wish to emerge the victor from the struggle.

Jednostavno je ratovati,najteže je održati mir.

Koliko dugo duša može biti kušana? Koliko dugo može izdržati? ?ovjek sam mira,ali duboko u mojoj duši drijema ubojica,koji u trenutku ludosti može zgrabiti oru?e zla u nastojanju da porazi zlo. Tako bih bio dvostruko poražen!

You ask why God permits evil", Pawel said. "I do not know the answer to this. There are arguments one could make to explain it, but they always lack something—something elusive that may be far beyond our ability to comprehend. Would we misinterpret it, even if we could see? All attempts to understand evil fail in the end.

Joy and sorrow—and especially the areas of your life where there is weakness?

And yet. . . and yet, the ancient scar of Adam within his nature dragged him inexorably back, again and again, to this desire for certainty.

Why this relentless pull to the left and to the right, as if a path zigzagging through perilous ravines and precipitous heights were a better way? It was not a better way. He knew it, and yet the tug remained.

You struggle against despair, which is perhaps the greatest temptation of our century. All manner of evil flows from this primeval wound in man, this conviction that he is absolutely alone, this terror that his sufferings are meaningless. Is this not also your fear?

Don't they see it? Can't they recognize the temptation?

My belief is that our willingness to undertake the struggle within our damaged natures is the very thing that broadens and deepens our capacity to love. If all conflict is removed, if all suffering is removed, are we not left with sentiment and sensuality?

Good. You realize what temptation can do to even the strongest virtue?

We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We're also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly they cannot save us

Be at peace, my little one, said a voice without compulsion. It was necessary for you to experience this. Recognize that voice and do not again listen to it. Do not converse with it. The deceiver wishes to shake you in his teeth. Come to me, come always to me and trust.

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

It is very difficult", he said aloud. "It is very difficult for a man to believe that God loves him, if he does not know the love of another human being.

Kakva bi utjeha bila imati vlastite organske prijatelje i brinuti se za njih u ovomu usamljenom svemiru. Poput ljudi, oni su kombinacija trnja i zvijezda.

He understood then what bear it would be his lot to wrestle with. Not blacks or grizzlies. But the one that struggled for mastery within his own being and had already been identified for him: fear.

Explain it to me." "You want to be a saint, Billy. But you want to be a saint on your own terms. You want glorious victories with your sword; most of all, you want victories over your personal weaknesses and faults.

Michael D. O'Brien

The second temptation is of a more sinister nature: the temptation to hate yourself because you have not lived up to your ideal. That is pride, and it is very dangerous. It opens the door to much worse things.

Ne možemo jednostavno iz sje?anja izbrisati svoje osje?aje i duhovne rane - to se ljudskim snagama jedostavno ne može - iako se možemo disciplinirati i nepostupati u skladu s njima.

What remains of your church is going to be handed over to the elder brother, to its rightful Lord." "God will not permit it." "Your absent god has already permitted it. Your progressives gave it over to the Christ of this age long ago. There are so many of them. How easy it was to convince them.