Quotes about Challenge
You yearn for a simplified lifestyle, so that your communication with Me can be uninterrupted. But I challenge you to relinquish the fantasy of an uncluttered world. Accept each day just as it comes, and find Me in the midst of it all.
— Sarah Young
There is one reason the gate is "narrow": it is demanding discipleship.
— Scot McKnight
Jesus often wetted his finger to find the direction of the acceptable winds, and instead of going with them, headed straight against them.
— Scot McKnight
There is nothing complex about this most simple of moral maxims; its difficulty is in the doing, not in the knowing.
— Scot McKnight
Fourth lesson in Bible reading: we are challenged to be better than nonfollowers. Followers are marked by a greater righteousness or by more righteousness. (Just what that more will look like can be found in the antitheses of 5:21—48.)
— Scot McKnight
The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.
— George W. Bush
The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
— Albert Schweitzer
America, now is not the time for small plans.
— Barack Obama
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.
— Desmond Tutu
The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
— Desmond Tutu
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
— Peter Mullan
Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.
— Ricky Gervais