Quotes about Struggles

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but—more frequently than not—struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.

Great victories are always preceded by great tests.

being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

You see, God hasn't promised you a good job or great kids. He hasn't promised you an easy marriage and a comfortable place to live. He hasn't promised you physical health and a good church to attend. He hasn't promised that you would experience affluence and be surrounded by things that entertain you. What he has promised is that he will complete the work that he has begun in you.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.