Quotes about Challenge

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

The prophets make us partners of an existence meant for us. What was revealed to them was not for their sake but intended to inspire us. The word must not freeze into habit; it must remain an event. To disregard the importance of continuous understanding is an evasion of the living challenge of the prophets, an escape from the urgency of responsible experience of every man, a denial of the deeper meaning of "the oral Torah.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, It's a slip and not a fall.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbour or not. We must get into action and obey — we must behave like a neighbour to him.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

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.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.