Quotes about Challenge
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
— Frank Herbert
Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)
— Seneca
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
— Seneca
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
— Seneca
God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
— Shane Claiborne
I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked 'what if He really meant it?' it could turn the world upside down. It is a shame christians have become so normal.
— Shane Claiborne
Jesus lives the challenge to our gender stereotypes and prejudices, but he is also wonderfully subversive in the ways he legitimates and empowers women.
— Shane Claiborne
Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.
— Shane Claiborne
Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.
— Shane Claiborne
As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, "Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
— Shane Claiborne
The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.
— Shane Claiborne
I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .
— Shane Claiborne