Quotes about Challenges

In other words, I believe that faith in the Creator is necessarily transrational (not antirational) and mystical. I try to remember that as I work through intellectual challenges—and I mean work through, not avoid.

The problem isn't the Bible. The problem is coming to the Bible with expectations it's not set up to bear.

Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time.

What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?