Quotes about Problems

The more people are into quick fixes and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition. The way we see the problem is the problem.

DIRECT, INDIRECT, AND NO CONTROL The problems we face fall in one of three areas: direct control (problems involving our own behavior); indirect control (problems involving other people's behavior); or no control (problems we can do nothing about, such as our past or situational realities). The proactive approach puts the first step in the solution of all three kinds of problems within our present Circle of Influence.

But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

Hands the first step to the solution. Changing our habits, changing our methods of influence and changing the way we see our no control problems are all within our Circle of Influence.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.

It is far easier to deal with people as problems to be solved than to have anything to do with them in community.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

The enemy uses lies to make problems appear bigger than the solutions we carry.

The reason for problems in our churches is not that we are all evil people. It is simply that we have not learned the ways of the King and His Kingdom enough for Him to influence how we think and live in every part of our lives.

Many people are impressed by their problems. They live in reaction to the devil.

To have a lasting impact on humanity, we must be more than people who see problems. We must be people with solutions. God is a creator; He's a builder. We get to share in His nature by co-laboring with His heart to answer every question and need carried by people around us.