Quotes About Difficulty

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

So many people come to church with the genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we're making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus. Are we determined to have nothing to do with all these people? They are convinced that it is not the Word Jesus himself that puts them off, but the superstructure of human, institutional, and doctrinal elements in our preaching.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

The difficulty is that average Fours may not know what their feelings are until after they have expressed them personally or artistically. But if they express all that they feel, they fear that they may reveal too much, exposing themselves to shame or punishment.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

Extenuating Circumstances

Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.

I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6 000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

you will know that it is a more difficult work to reject the opinion of others than to establish your own.

and that sinners need mercy (Matt. 9:9–13; 11:19; Luke 7:39; 19:7). The rules that are intended to make us pure are essentially designed to try to keep us apart from sinful people, and to keep our children apart from sinful children or children from sinful homes. We teach our children to be undefiled and separate rather than to show mercy—then, when they grow up, we wonder why they find evangelism to be so difficult.

My mother used to read me stories. They ended happily, but before that, there was usually sadness or difficulty. I never understood why they ended just when the good part was starting.