Quotes about Challenges

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.