Quotes About Struggle

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.