Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go. . J.C. Ryle
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;...
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Matthew Arnold
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
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Deb Caletti
You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
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Carrie Ryan
Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.
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Jonathan Anthony Burkett
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
More Quotes By J.C. Ryle
Hell is truth known too late.
That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against.... We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot...
Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap.... Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
