Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.