Quotes about Challenge

BE WILLING TO KEEP CLIMBING THIS HIGH mountain with Me. This journey is training you to see from a heavenly perspective that transcends your circumstances. The higher up the mountain you climb, the steeper and more challenging your path becomes—but the greater your adventure as well.

You yearn for a simplified lifestyle, so that your communication with Me can be uninterrupted. But I challenge you to relinquish the fantasy of an uncluttered world. Accept each day just as it comes, and find Me in the midst of it all.

There is one reason the gate is "narrow": it is demanding discipleship.

Jesus often wetted his finger to find the direction of the acceptable winds, and instead of going with them, headed straight against them.

There is nothing complex about this most simple of moral maxims; its difficulty is in the doing, not in the knowing.

Fourth lesson in Bible reading: we are challenged to be better than nonfollowers. Followers are marked by a greater righteousness or by more righteousness. (Just what that more will look like can be found in the antitheses of 5:21—48.)

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.