#halle

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#challenge

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#courage #hero #independence #inspirational #courage

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #challenge #dating #know-your-value #love

The Christian message has a moral challenge. If the message is true, the moral challenge has to be accepted. So God is not a fit object for man’s detached scrutiny. You cannot fix God at the end of a telescope or a microscope and say “How interesting!” God is not interesting. He is deeply upsetting. The same is true of Jesus Christ … We know that to find God and to accept Jesus Christ would be a very inconvenient experience. It would involve the rethinking of our whole outlook on life and the readjustment of our whole manner of life. And it is a combination of intellectual and moral cowardice which makes us hesitate. We do not find because we do not seek. We do not seek because we do not want to find, and we know that the way to be certain of not finding is not to seek … Christ’s promise is plain: "Seek and you will find. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

#christ #cost-of-discipleship #experience

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#life #pity #life

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving. ↗

— Jayleigh Cape

#hardship #jayleigh-cape #life #overcome #perseverance

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires. ↗

— John Eldredge

#christianity #life #men #religion #life

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#hope #life #motivation #life

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#indifference #life #perseverance #life

I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#dying #life #moments #life