Quotes About Struggle

I believe that all Spaniards?—even those fighting us—wish that this war could have been settled one way or another by Spaniards alone. We never wanted our country to become a battleground for foreign powers.

It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they cannot be shared by all, and who works despite misery and persecution for the regeneration of the world.

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyoneís hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave womanís son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

But I will also make a nation of the slave womanís son, because he is your offspring.”

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

After this, his brother came out grasping Esauís heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his fatherís servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Havenít you saved a blessing for me?”

His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.

You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.