Quotes about Challenges

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Everything is in your face. The battle is that you're getting things from all ends like never before and the intensity is being turned up like never before. So there's a call to be set apart, and there's a call to speak the truth, and there's a call to start standing up and putting your faith in action.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.