Quotes about Challenges

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”