Quotes About Struggle

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Poverty chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me.

My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.