Quotes about Challenges

Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that. To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

GIVE UP THE ILLUSION that you deserve a problem-free life.

The best way to befriend your problems is to thank Me for them. This simple act opens your mind to the possibility of benefits flowing from your difficulties. You can even give persistent problems nicknames, helping you to approach them with familiarity rather than with dread. The next step is to introduce them to Me, enabling Me to embrace them in My loving Presence. I will not necessarily remove your problems, but My wisdom is sufficient to bring good out of every one of them.

1. Ever have one of those days when everything seems to be off kilter? How do you let those days affect you? 2. Today's reading gives us insight into how a difficult day might shape our outlook: "your tendency upon awakening is to assess the difficulties ahead of you, measuring them against your average strength. This is an exercise in unreality." Why do you think it does no good to imagine how we might overcome the difficulties of the day before we even know what they are?

YOU ARE ON AN ADVENTUROUS TRAIL with Me. This is not an easy time, but it is nonetheless good—full of blessings as well as struggles. Be open to learning all that I want to teach you as you journey through challenging terrain, and be willing to let go of familiar comforts so you can say a wholehearted "Yes!" to this adventure.

Thank Me for the difficulties in your life, since they provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance.

Talk with Me, and listen while I talk you through each challenging situation. I am not a careless God.

There is something about the Sermon on the Mount that makes Christians nervous, and in particular it makes Protestants nervous, especially those whose theology's first foot is a special understanding of grace.

The only thing that "exploits your gifts" or that taxes you to the limits or that fills your soul or that challenges you to live the dream the most is following Jesus. Some days you may do pretty well; other days you may flub up.