“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”
Stephen King book Pet Sematary
Source: Pet Sematary
“6360. Without Pains,
No Gains.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
“Without Struggle There Is No Success”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Variant: Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Essays
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Attributed in Monarchy or Money Power (1933), by R. McNair Wilson. No primary source for this is known.
Attributed
Benny Tai (1964) Hong Kong activist and writer
"There will be darker times ahead for Hong Kong but the sun will rise again" (April 19, 2019)
“… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…”
Paulo Freire book Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed