Wrestles With God Quotes

#1. God changed Jacob's name to "Israel," which means "one who wrestles with God." As far as I know, Israel is still the only nation named after a wrestler.

Mark Russell

#2. And some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.

George R R Martin

#3. You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

Amber Le Bon

#4. How you feel is how you allow yourself to feel.

E.K. Blair

#5. Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#6. Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

James Cook

#7. Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

John Baldoni

#8. I don't know why, but with each new woman it seemed like the first time, almost as if I had never been with a woman before.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Grace within us will employ prayer, and faith, and hope, and love, to cast out the evil; it takes unto it the "whole armour of God," and wrestles earnestly. These two opposing natures will never cease to struggle so long as we are in this world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies.

Mark Twain

#11. If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em. Even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

Louis C.K.

#12. The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Robert Frost

#13. The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing ... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

William Gurnall

#14. The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. It had made him feel awe and wonder, not fear and panic. It had made him want to kneel and cry, but this cross made him want to curse and kill.

Richard Wright