Quotes about Challenge

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

Not a day goes by but what we have to deal with that ancient triple threat that Christians in the Middle Ages summarized under the headings of the world, the flesh and the devil:

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

The ideal course of life is not always easy.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

I'm learning that it's not what comes our way that matters so much as it is how we react.

Whatever your quitting point, I challenge you to test God's truth and faithfulness by saying, "God, I'm going to proceed, trusting you to empower me to crash through this quitting point and come out in one piece on the other side.

It is quite another to endure and respect those whose passion is to pursue living an authentic Gospel in ways that challenge our comfort zones. Such is the nature of real faith. It offends the stationary.

The antichrist spirit has a goal for the Church—embrace Jesus apart from the anointing. Without the anointing, He becomes a safe religious figure who is sure not to challenge or offend us. Paul described this deceptive possibility as "having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!" (2 Tim. 3:5).

Learning to host the Presence of God is the biggest challenge of the Christian life.

Being willing to do what you are not qualified to do is sometimes what qualifies you.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.