Quotes About Challenge

I firmly believe that until the churches of North America are led more deeply into the darkness of our epoch, they will continue to exist largely on the surface of life and history. I

Douglas Johnson

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

It is a tendency identified by the late Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue as 'St George in retirement' syndrome. After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Secular conservatism is like trying to use your pocket handkerchief to slow you down after the main chute has failed. This

You were born of a woman, and so you come from a race of dragon-slayers. This does not mean you will succeed. It just means the thing is possible.

Offensive Takeaway Point: We should look for a way to stop responding to initiatives of the adversary and start behaving in such a way that they have to figure out how to respond to us. Take the initiative.

Right next door to the question of secession—a right that the Founders should have made more explicit than they did—is the equally challenging matter of expulsion. There needs to be a mechanism for frog-marching somebody to the curb. But enough about California.

Scripture focuses on the political rulers, and this is because it is where the fundamental challenge was mounted.

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind

You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement.

We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality.

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.