Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

— Nehemiah 6:1

The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter

— Nehemiah 6:5

For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.

— Nehemiah 6:9

So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.

— Nehemiah 6:15

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

— Job 30:14

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

— Psalm 18:42

They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

— Psalm 20:8

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

— Psalm 89:40

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

— Psalm 107:16

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

— Psalm 118:12

Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

— Psalm 142:3

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

— Isaiah 45:2