Quotes About Challenge

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.

I like poems that are little games.

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

That's Jesus for you. Making people across time upset with him.

Readers who come to the Bible expecting something more like an accurate textbook, a more-or-less objective recalling of the past—because, surely, God wouldn't have it any other way—are in for an uncomfortable read. But if they take seriously the words in front of them, they will quickly find that the Bible doesn't deliver on that expectation. Not remotely.

When knowing what you believe is the nonnegotiable center of true faith, questions and critical self-examination pose a threat.

judging by how the Bible actually behaves—God did not design scripture to be a hushed afternoon in an oak-paneled library. Instead, God has invited us to participate in a wrestling match, a forum for us to be stretched and to grow.

To see what Paul sees, Christians today are summoned to join Paul: the reality of Jesus demands that the Old Testament be read not by the book, but against the grain.

And it's always a bad move to invent a Jesus who agrees with us rather than challenges us.

The big lesson I learned from wrestling with my own curveballs is how deeply my faith in God had been cemented in fear—which is to say, how I viewed God as very much antagonistic toward me. And so any thought on my part of listening to my experiences and interrogating my inherited faith—to inspect its boundaries let alone climb over its walls—was seen as a crisis that had to be averted or at least resolved immediately.

my disruptive experiences are not outside impositions to or an attack on my faith, but are the soil out of which my faith matures and takes shape.

And here's another important dimension of this book. When we accept that biblical invitation, we will see not only how the Bible challenges us to work out what it means to live the life of faith here and now. We will also see—if I may stress the point once again—how the biblical writers themselves were already challenged by the need to move past a rulebook mentality and respond to new circumstances with wisdom.

We have every reason today to think differently about the universe and our place in it. This doesn't disprove God, but it does challenge our thinking. For people of faith, bringing the ancient Bible and our lives together can be stressful and unnerving—which is a problem if faith and correct thinking are deemed inseparable. "What does it mean to be human?" does not have as clear a biblical answer as it once had.

Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.

I knew I'd get stick

Prepare to have your warranty voided," she said.

The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.

People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is.

Fucking civil servants, always stand in the way of progress.

Wilson took three quick steps, bringing him right up to the interloper, and swung a fist.

Science your way out of this.