Quotes Tagged "challenges"

Don’t pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.

Should all the hoards of mankind assemble as one and bring the full force of their numbers against us, we must remember that one man standing alone with God remains an immovable majority.

I hear myself singing – We shall overcome, we shall overcome someday…

You are not for any reason less than whom God created you to be, don't live like a dwarf where you are seen as a giant.

Not that he had come anywhere near attaining her skill at managing hope. She could balance it like a juggler -- let it soar and curb it and pass it from hand to hand. She could spin hope and spin herself through it. Forget mere juggling; she was a veritable trapeze artist with this hope thing.

The utterly frightening thing about great things is that we don’t know where they’re taking us, we can’t control them, and we’ll never be able to return to what we left. And are those things not the things that make great things great?

Emotional hurts are like cancers of the soul. If we don’t get them out, they can poison the whole soul and body.

That which is possible is only the seedbed for that which is impossible. And therefore, if we neglect to plant liberally we might live lives full of the possible, but we will never hold the harvest of the impossible.

Satan wants to use sharks to move you from your purpose. Don’t let him!

People may betray you, but you don’t need to take it personally.

If you let sharks call the shots, control, and manipulate you, it will lead you down a road of burnout, hopelessness, and even depression.

You were never created to please people; you were created to please God.

We may not be able to make people’s decisions, but we can choose to forgive and be made whole in Him.

You are not someone’s answer. You are an example of what the answer can do in someone’s life, and you are compelled to share how you did it by God’s Word and His grace, but only their yielding in obedience to God is their answer.

You can never do for someone what they are not willing to do for themselves.

We must be compassionate but not enable people to blame or shame us out of God’s blessings.

We don’t need to be fearful of sharks, but we do need to have an awareness of them.

Be bold! Be courageous! God’s grace is backing you!

God has called us to love people, to be an example, and to be kind, but we have to take courage and be wise because there are sharks out there.

If you allow sharks to dictate your decisions, they will try to exert their will on you more and more.