Quotes about Challenge

When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide lodg'd with me useless.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. And

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.

We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.

If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It is not the empty cup that we have difficulty in carrying; it is the cup full to the brim that must be carefully balanced.

It's worth pointing out that Renate didn't just marry a gay drug addict. That would have been bad enough. But she married a gay drug addict whose life was about to go haywire in ways he hadn't previously thought possible.