Quotes About Challenges

against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Pray that this will not occur in the winter.

Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture.

The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.

For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,