Quotes About Challenge

If you became blind," I said, "if you were used to finding your way around a house and then, suddenly, one day had an accident--was attacked or something--and became blind, only then would you actually notice the furniture. It would always have been there, but you would never have been aware of it, you would just have gone around it. Only when something becomes hard to cope with do you see it. That's how you become aware of time--when it becomes hard to cope with.

Even today, other young people—not all of them Witnesses—face pressures to salute the flag under pain of suspension.

PLH are in big trouble.

Lotta blamming ahead.

None of us knows what we are capable of, until we have to do it.

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ëI will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.í

But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the LORD.

But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.

But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORDís help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”

And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”

And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.

If only this people were under my authority, I would remove Abimelech; I would say to him, ëMuster your army and come out!í”

“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ëWho is Abimelech that we should serve him?í Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”