Quotes about Challenge

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace?

There is a time in every man's life when he must push off from the wharf of safety into the sea of chance.

I read more than ever, and wished my soul that I had been born a boy. Horatio Alger was the greatest writer in the world. His heroes were always good, always won, and were always boys. I could have developed the first two virtues, but becoming a boy was sure to be difficult, if not impossible.

He badder than death yet gives no sweet release.

More than any other faith challenge I face, believing that I am who God says I am necessitates choosing what God says over what I feel.

Acknowledge God. Acknowledging God first thing every morning transforms my day. I often begin my day by reconfirming His authority over me and submitting to Him as Lord in advance of my daily circumstances. I try to accept the words of Joshua 24:15 as a personal daily challenge: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.

The giant stop in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our life.

faith unchallenged ordinarily remains unchanged.

Our Promised Lands are characterized by the presence of victory, not the absence of opposition.

The few marvelous exceptions have marked me forever, but I wonder why so many believers believe so little of Jesus. Either He no longer does what the Bible says, or we don't give Him the chance.

The level of trust we have for God is a monumental issue in the life of every believer. Many variables in our lives affect our willingness to trust God. A loss or betrayal can deeply mark our level of trust. A broken heart never mended handicaps us terribly when we're challenged to trust. Trusting an invisible God doesn't come naturally to any believer. A trust relationship grows only by stepping out in faith and making the choice to trust.

Sometimes God requires much of us so we can experience the unmatched exhilaration of partnering in divine triumph.