Quotes about Obstacles

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.