Quotes About Challenge

Christians were never meant to be normal. We've always been holy troublemakers, we've always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that's incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

Her nakedness was a challenge, her beauty a danger, her way of life an abomination and her existence an evil.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.

I've been afraid even to go out in my snowfall, let alone my blizzard.

Religions are always in trouble," Tabari said. "In adversity they grow honest. It's good for them.

They headed northwest for a destination unknown, one man, one woman traversing barren lands that held no water, moving into canyons where desperadoes might be lurking, and crossing lands often ravaged by wandering bands of Hottentot and Bushmen outlaws.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

Turn the disadvantage to account by utilizing it for the gaining of mental and spiritual strength, and

No situation can be difficult of itself; it is the lack of insight into its intricacies, and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty. Immeasurable, therefore, is the gain of a difficulty transcended.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

But the reality is: reinvention is life. This is the call to adventure that constantly whispers to us. Do we answer it? Do we take the call?

You only get better if you lean in to the uncomfortable.

On the path to mastery, everything will go wrong.

Listen, I know it's very difficult to go below $36,000. I know you are doing the best you can here. But the most I can afford is $32,157.

Picasso also says, "I am always doing things I can't do—that's how I get to do them.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

It's a long way," John said slowly, "ain't it? It's a hard way. It's uphill all the way.