Quotes about Challenges

One of things I find really irritating is when people say, 'You need to exercise, it'll make you feel better.' When you are in the deepest, darkest hole, that is the last thing that you can imagine doing.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

I have found over and over again how hard it is to be truly faithful to Jesus when I am alone.

Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God's active presence, and to obey God's prompting, direction, leadings, and guidance.

We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

Christ will lead you into many situations that will seem impossible, but don't try to avoid them. Stay in the middle of them, for that is where you will experience God.

Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you.