Quotes about Challenges

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.

The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

The greatest mountain anyone can conquer is fear.

Your greatest obstacles usher you to your greatest rewards.

In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.