Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding–He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.
– Alan Redpath
Holiness | Transformation | Struggles
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
– Max Lucado
God | Struggles
No matter what storm you face, you need to know that God loves you. He has not abandoned you.
– Franklin Graham
Struggles
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
– William Booth
Preaching | The Gospel | Struggles
What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly
– A. W. Tozer
Struggles | Patience
The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don’t cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don’t turn up the TV and pretend they aren’t there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.
– Max Lucado
Struggles
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
– George Whitefield
Perseverance | Struggles
Do not fear the conflict, and do not flee from it; where there is no struggle, there is no virtue.
– John of Kronstadt
Struggles | Virtue
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
– Thomas Brooks
Grace | Struggles
I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.
– Ravi Zacharias
Struggles
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
– John Calvin
Character | Struggles | Impatience
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Struggles | Change | Freedom
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.
– Thomas Brooks
Faith | Struggles
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
– Thomas a Kempis
Perseverance | Struggles
The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.
– C.S. Lewis
Sin | Struggles
Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We are more concerned about our own “Victory” over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
– Jerry Bridges
Attitude | Sin | Struggles
Perhaps God has been speaking to you and you wonder why you have troubles. Maybe you have suffered a financial loss and you find it very difficult to understand. Is God speaking to you in an effort to bring you back to Himself? You need to face these matters squarely and be honest with God as He deals with you.
– Theodore Epp
Struggles
True rest is not that of torpor, but that of harmony; it is not refusing the struggle, but conquering in it; not resting from duty, but finding rest in it.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Adversity | Contentment | Struggles
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Achievement | Struggles
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
– C.S. Lewis
Philosophy | Enemies | Struggles
In times of struggle and failure, we need to do more than pronounce judgment on what’s wrong and enforce punishment. We need to talk, discuss, question, evaluate, engage, and interact with our teenagers, hoping that God will use these moments of opportunity to open their eyes a little more to who they really are and to their constant need for Christ.
– Paul David Tripp
Struggles | Children
If thou dost not stumble at this stone, the devil hath another at hand to throw in the way. He is not so unskillful a fowler as to go with one single shot into the field; and therefore expect him, as soon as he hath discharged one, and missed thee, to let fly at thee with a second.
– William Gurnall
Struggles
We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.
– Franklin Graham
Struggles
As the world is weary of me so am I of it.
– John Knox
Struggles