Quotes about Challenge

I want to take on fighters like Jeremy Stephens, Andre Fili... get ourselves into the Octagon and see if these guys can bully me.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.

Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.

How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When

When preached purely, His Word exalts, frightens, shocks, and forces us to reassess our whole life.

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own.

Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.

Yes, God dwells in my innermost being, but how could I accept Jesus' call: "Make your home in me as I make mine in you"? The invitation is clear and unambiguous. To make my home where God had made his, this is the great spiritual challenge. It seemed an impossible task.