Quotes About Struggle

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ëGive me justice against my adversary.í

Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

A strong wind was blowing, and the sea grew agitated.

On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.

ëLord,í I answered, ëthey know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.

After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.