Quotes About Challenge

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.

Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible.

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.

Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.