Quotes about Challenges

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.

Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.

Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.

Yes, faith still moves mountains. But sometimes the greater act of faith is not praying for the mountain to move instantly but rather hanging in there while God helps you to move it bit by bit.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. ANNA QUINDLEN

And honestly, I'm tired of knowing I have issues but having no clue how to rein them in on a given day. I need something simple. A quick reality check I can remember in the midst of the everyday messies.

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

Without challenges and changes people tend to grow increasingly distant from God and resistant to His ways.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

We reframe everything by one simple choice: I am accepting God's invitation to become a man. From there we interpret jobs, money, relationships, flat tires, bad dates, even our play time as the context in which the boy is becoming a man. We take an active role, asking our Father to speak to us, speak to our identity, to validate us. We step into our fears and accept "hardship as discipline.