Quotes About Struggle

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.

The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.