Quotes about Obstacles

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

The central tragedy of the sexual abuse scandal is that those who were ordained to act in the very person of Christ became, in the most dramatic way, obstacles to Christ.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

I think," said Anne slowly, "that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

And that is why we sometimes have to push through enemy territory when we pray. It is not that we are praying out of the will of God, or that God is unwilling to hear us, but that we have to penetrate a hostile kingdom in the heavenlies in order to reach Him.

But when we create our own God and our own world, what we are really doing is to deify our own lust. We are then bound to hate our fellow-men, as obstacles standing in the way of our wills.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.