Quotes about Challenge
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
— George Bernard Shaw
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
— George Eliot
The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
— Henri Nouwen
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
— Parker Palmer
When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide lodg'd with me useless.
— John Milton
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
— John Milton
Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.
— John Newton
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. And
— John Ortberg
When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation
— John Piper
If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires
— John Piper
What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.
— John Piper