Quotes About Challenge

More than a hundred years ago, a British revivalist issued a holy dare that would change a life, a city, and a generation. That timeless challenge echoes across every generation: "The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.

We were meant for more than a safe ride when God placed us here. Any part of this life that offers more, requires more, or asks more of us than we are used to is an opportunity to grow more, dream more, and be more than we are now.

You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it'll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn't scare you, it's too small.

Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

test by getting out of a boat in the middle of the Sea of Galilee when Jesus uttered one of the craziest commands in Scripture: "Come." Peter risked far more than wet feet. The

Orar con persistencia es pedirle a Dios que nos haga la vida más difícil. Mientras mayor es tu persistencia al orar, más tendrás que trabajar. Y eso es una bendición de Dios.

So thank God for opposition. It forces us to pray like it depends on god, which it does. And it reconditions our reflexes in the process.

Twenty years later, Diana Nyad would attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. She swam seventy-eight miles in forty-two hours, but strong winds stopped her short of her goal.

Everybody wants a miracle; we just don't want to be in a situation where we need one. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. It's about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.

Life becomes an adventure when we start seeing the miraculous in the mundane. When we put feet to our passion or bear-hug a new challenge, it changes our outlook on life.

Facing your fears is the beginning of the battle.

Minimum risk equals minimum satisfaction.

One of the most exhilarating things in the world is doing something that no one thinks you can do.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The defining moments will double as the scariest decisions.

Time comes in every good officer's life when he has to stalk the hallowed halls of the five-sided circus,

Mark Billingham

No, he needed to mould the context, to shape his environment in a way that would stimulate and spark, that would challenge and charge him.

In the world's most dangerous country, the job of going after Pablo was the most dangerous position of all.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit had entered us. But after the baptism everything got worse.

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