Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
I am convinced that […] in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
