Quotes About Challenge

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

How can I find a way out when I do not know how to begin to resist?

Chapter Eighteen

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked 'what if He really meant it?' it could turn the world upside down. It is a shame christians have become so normal.

Jesus lives the challenge to our gender stereotypes and prejudices, but he is also wonderfully subversive in the ways he legitimates and empowers women.

I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what are they to do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .

Throwing off an oppressor is only the beginning of a long and difficult journey. Leia

If a twenty-year-old is frightened of stoves in the same way he was as a two-year-old, we have a problem.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

There was something to be said for blissful ignorance. But would I have been happier with no idea about what threatened my world? At least this way I stood a chance of doing something about it.

Romantic comedy heroines were seldom on top of the world, doing exactly what they'd always wanted to do.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous.

I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.

Come on, she willed through the care window. Come on, change me. I dare you.

Duty doesn't always fit comfortably.

Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut.

No, she wasn't going to go to Martin's, curse him, but she wasn't going to run back to her room either, if just to spite Mr. Nobley. The man deserved to be spited. Or spitted. Or both.