Quotes about Difficulty

If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

The world is a head of thistles; whichever way you turn it, it stretches the thorns about itself.

certainly lived through more troubles than Tina, though Tina's own life couldn't be considered an easy one.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

When we deny our difficulties in order to feel immediate peace, we are not exercising biblical faith.

Paul's model of parenting is distinctly redemptive, but when parents forget that moments of difficulty are moments of redemption, they stand in the way of what the Lord is doing.

when we are living in the middle of difficulty, we are tempted to view it as a sign of God's unfaithfulness or inattention.

Rather than suffering being connected to the bad things we have done, Scripture connects trials and difficulty to the good things God wants for us and is working to produce in us (see James 1:2—4).

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.