Quotes about Challenges

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.

The grace factor will be revealed in three areas of your life: grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

If we let the Bible be the Bible, on its own terms—on God's terms—we will see this in-fleshing God at work, not despite the challenges, the unevenness, and ancient strangeness of the Bible, but precisely because of these things. Perhaps not the way we would have written our sacred book, if we had been consulted, but the one that the good and wise God has allowed his people to have.

In other words, I believe that faith in the Creator is necessarily transrational (not antirational) and mystical. I try to remember that as I work through intellectual challenges—and I mean work through, not avoid.

The problem isn't the Bible. The problem is coming to the Bible with expectations it's not set up to bear.

Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time.

What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?