Quotes about Difficulty

until they bump into an obstacle that stymies them. If you encounter a problem with no immediate solution, your response to that situation will take you either up or down. You can lash out at the difficulty, resenting it and feeling sorry for yourself. This will take you down into a pit of self-pity. Alternatively, the problem can be a ladder, enabling you to climb up and see your life from My perspective.

Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose.

Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission...were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

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

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

But, then, nothing is easy.

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.