#difficulties

A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: “I lie in the shadow of St. Paul’s. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#faith #forward #st-paul-s #faith

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#difficulties #eyes #god #our #pray

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#administration #again #become #club #commercial

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #aware #because #difficulties #done

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#difficulties #lose #must #our #sight

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

#define #different #difficulties #disturbed #encountered

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this. ↗

— Tony Greig

#country #difficulties #get #interviewing #involved

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#difficulties #felicity #highest #human #strive

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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