Quotes About Struggle

I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.

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As John Piper puts it, "For people who are passing through the dark night of the soul, turnaround will come because God brings unwavering lovers of Christ into their lives who do not give up on them."24

Your brain doesn't work very well in the sudden oxygen deprivation of 14,000 feet. Combine that with lack of sleep, and efficient work is extremely hard.

When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.

The car bomb is the poor man's air force.

Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression.

But there's no such thing as an unchallenged life. And whether or not a person's challenges are visible to others, or greater or lesser than others may have experienced, doesn't change the fact that they exist.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

you raise them the best you can, make all the sacrifices in the world, give them all the love in the universe, and all they do is break your heart." After lunch they called

Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

sometimes I struggle to get the thoughts out of my head because they are stuck behind one another like cars in a traffic jam.

Many of us are living contradictions. I've done some empirical probing in my own life and have determined this to be true. We want God to speak to us, but we're petrified he'll call us to something uncomfortable, or difficult, or worse . . . something uncool.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

Nick said. "Failing at school, failing at baseball…" The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn't stop if he'd tried: "… failing at being your son." For the second time that day, Nick ran.

didn't come right out and say so." "I played bad against Bancroft," Jake said. "Dad didn't seem too worried about how I was doing. I'm fighting every week to be the number one QB on this team. How come Dad never gave me one of his famous pep talks?" "Maybe he didn't think you needed one," his mom said. "And how would he know that?" Jake said. In that moment, Jake was thinking about when Wyatt had been home

What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?

As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end of its own resources, for the power to love derives purely and solely from the knowledge that one is already loved in return.