Quotes about Challenges

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.

Things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

In some seasons, Jesus asks us, "Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Love one another strenuously because it's hard.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

The fact that we are a family of faith does not mean we are one big happy family. The people we encounter as brothers and sisters in faith are not always nice people. They do not stop being sinners the moment they begin believing in Christ.