Quotes About Struggle

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ëOur transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?í

As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,

I saw him approach the ram in a rage against him, and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him, and the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and no one could deliver the ram from his power.

However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be proud in heart and will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not triumph.

In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will exalt themselves in fulfillment of the vision, but they will fail.

Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.

In the womb he grasped his brotherís heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.

Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.