Quotes about Struggle

Nearly all that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

No matter how hard people work to suppress their knowledge of God, creation itself keeps challenging them. "Human life is a continual wrestling match with God and his created order," writes Thomas Johnson. 14

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

sin-confess-sin-confess-sin-confess-and-sin-again cycle does not deal with all of reality. It

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.