Quotes About Challenge

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

Faith without challenge is nothing.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

Be careful with your faith !It could make you see the good side of hell on earth.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

Pain, it'll make you or break you.

I am at war with my own mind.

Its confusing when you can't determine if the signs are for you to give up or just a test to see how long you could hold on.

How do I answer the question, what's wrong when nothing is right?

When one door closes, sometimes you should get a hammer and nails to make sure it stays shut.