Quotes about Obstacles
The Kingdom of God is a treasure. Once you have touched that treasure, you know that the things you previously considered to be conditions for your happiness are just obstacles.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Your tests don't have to define you. Your compatibility doesn't have to be a ceiling over which your relationship can never rise. Your past hurts don't have to constitute the first steps in a journey toward divorce court. We worship, serve, and are empowered by a supernatural God who can lift us above our scientific limitations and create something special out of something very ordinary. These tests don't account for the power of a magnificent obsession.
— Gary Thomas
If someone is getting in the way of you becoming the person God created you to be or frustrating the work God has called you to do, for you that person is toxic. It's not selfish for you to want to be who God created you to be, and it's not selfish for you to do what God created you to do.
— Gary Thomas
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
— Muhammad Ali
If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.
— Bruce Wilkinson
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
— Norman Vincent Peale
There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
— Donald Miller
When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?
— Mark Batterson
The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go.
— Stephen Covey
Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks
— Oprah Winfrey
So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God.
— Eugene Peterson
Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.
— Eugene Peterson