Quotes about Challenge

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.