Quotes about Difficulty

We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.

Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

They have all faced the difficulty of having relationships with flawed people in a broken world, and they have opted to check out.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

All sorrow, hardship, difficulty, struggle, pain, unhappiness, and ultimately death itself can be traced to rebellion against God's love for us.

Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book. 'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

Cudi is much lower in elevation, being about 6,800 feet high, so it would not have been so difficult to herd animals down the mountain. There would have been no problems with low oxygen levels, and this mountain is not a volcano that is resting upon the top of the mountains of Ararat (like volcanic Ararat is).