#halle

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#challenge

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen. ↗

— Brené Brown

#joy #love #resilience #experience

Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #life #poison #success #experience

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

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arrogance #arrogant #boasting #bragging #challenges

Nothing can be achieved, if not first imagined. ↗

— Lolalola

#life-challenges #life-lessons #motivational #imagination

Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength, ↗

— Victoria Addino

#conquer #mental-balance #strength #structure #struggle

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost. ↗

— Crystal Woodman Miller

#challenge #christ #hope #inspirational #world-changer

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#challenge #sherlock-holmes #tv #intelligence

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. ↗

— Roger Crawford

#choices #defeat #optimism #life