Quotes About Struggle

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the dismal drudgery of the valley, but it is in the valley that we have to live for the glory of God. We see His glory on the mountain, but we never live for His glory there. It is in the place of humiliation that we find our true worth to God

All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.

Salvation is easy because it cost God so much, but the manifestation of it in my life is difficult. God saves a man and endues him with the Holy Spirit, and then says in effect—"Now work it out, be loyal to Me, whilst the nature of things round about you would make you disloyal." "I have called you friends." Stand loyal to your Friend, and remember that His honour is at stake in your bodily life.

The typical view of the Christian life is that it means being delivered from all adversity. But it actually means being delivered in adversity, which is something very different.

O Lord, I would bless and praise Thee. How hard I find it to praise Thee when I am not physically fit, and yet why should it—that means that I praise Thee when it is a pleasure to me physically. O Lord, that my soul were one continual praise to Thee.

There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.

Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.

THE LAW OF OPPOSITION "To him who overcomes . . . ." Revelation 2:7     Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

Temptation is not something we can escape; in fact, it is essential to the well-rounded life of a person. Beware of thinking that you are tempted as no one else—what you go through is the common inheritance of the human race, not something that no one has ever before endured. God does not save us from temptations—He sustains us in the midst of them

if sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me. When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful—just the everyday activities of life—do I hear God's assurance even in these?

ABELARDO I: [...] Foi a bala do cano que penetrou profundamente, a primeira... As outras rodearam o coração! Que dor... Decerto é porque o coração ficou intacto... O coração, esse útero do homem, onde a gente gera os filhos mais caros... a ambição, o desespero, a vontade de viver... a literatura...

A]n der Wirklichkeit der Geschichte, scheitert jede Ideologie.

Man is an element of all-living nature that rises in rebellion against nature. He will pay for this defiance with his life. Through this act of defiance, man distinguishes himself from all other living things, which as pure nature are blended into the tapestry of the natural universe. Mankind is the hero of this tragedy, world history the final act of the tragedy itself.

Whoever cannot believe and yet longs for it, whoever knows how miserable the Enlightenment is and yet cannot get rid of it, also knows what hell is. To be banished knowingly into unbelief.

There are no 'men-in-themselves' such as the philosophers talk about, but only men of a time, of a locality, of a race, of a personal cast, who contend in battle with a given world and win through or fail, while the universe around them moves slowly on with a godlike unconcern. This battle is life — life, indeed, in the Nietzschean sense, a grim, pitiless, no-quarter battle of the Will-to-Power.

Hölle. Wer nicht glauben kann und sich doch danach sehnt, wer weiß, wie erbärmlich der Aufkläricht ist und ihn doch nicht loswird, der weiß auch, was Hölle ist. Wissend in den Unglauben verbannt zu sein.

El ser se extingue cuando se extingue la voluntad de lucha

Der Farbige durchschaut den Weißen, wenn er von "Menschheit" und ewigem Frieden redet. Er wittert die Unfähigkeit und den fehlenden Willen, sich zu verteidigen.

The fight against Nature is hopeless and yet — it will be fought out to the bitter end.

Kdo m?že dát jednou za rok pr?chod hn?vu," ?ekl Krabat, ten pak vydrží vše, co se mu nap?esrok naloží na h?bet - a toho není ve mlýn? na Blatech, jak budeš mít možnost poznat, práv? málo.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

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