Quotes about Struggle
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
- Charles Spurgeon
Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.
- Bill Johnson
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
- John of the Cross
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
- Madeleine L'Engle
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
- Gordon Fee
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
- John Calvin
If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.
- Charles Swindoll
Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
- Jerry Bridges
You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
- Oswald Chambers
Sometimes God calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and He calms you
- Nicky Gumbel
And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.
- Watchman Nee
No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.
- Beth Moore