Quotes About Struggle

Encréspate, ola! ¡Pez, atrévete a salir! Donde hay agua se puede vivir otra vez, otra vez invocar al mundo al cantar a coro con la muerte, otra vez gritar desde el desfiladero: mirad, estamos al abrigo, mirad, la tierra era nuestra, mirad, ¡cómo cortamos el camino a la estrella!

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who have triumphed in the melancholy struggle for literary supremacy.

Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Today over half the world's refugees are in 'protracted refugee situations' and for them the average length of stay [in camps] is over two decades.

Es natural que un gobierno de un país en situación de posguerra trate de defenderse, pero no le servirá de nada.

Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.

Oh no. We've had to do some extreme things to save the world—" "Yeah, we're going to have to read the comments.

To human beings it won't look or feel like a war, it'll be more like . . . one of those modernist paintings you lot do, if it melted. Inside all your brains. Forever.

This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes

Every Artist is a Cannibal,every Poet is a Thief.All kill for inspiration and sing about their grief

A man will rise,a man will fall.From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall

Can you imagine your second album the difficult second album it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, "It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.

It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?

Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that's not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It's God working to complete what he's begun in you.

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

So, when you are sinned against or when the fallen world breaks your door down, don't lash out or run away. Stand in your weakness and confusion and say, "I am not alone. God is with me, and he is faithful, powerful, and willing." You can be realistic and hopeful at the very same time. Realistic expectations are not about hope without honesty, and they are not about honesty without hope. Realism is found at the intersection of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.

When the thing you have been trusting (whether you knew it or not) is laid to waste, you don't suffer just the loss of that thing; you also suffer the loss of the identity and security that it provided.

There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.