Quotes about Struggle
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
- Jesse Jackson
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
- Frederick Buechner
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
- Anne Lamott
Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
- Francine Rivers
You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.
- Joyce Meyer
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.
- Shauna Niequist
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
- AW Tozer
Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
- Jim Elliot
No man hates God without first hating himself.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.
- Charles Swindoll
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
- Ignatius of Loyola