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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
C. S. Lewis
Living with God does not guarantee an exemption from hardships, but rather serenity in times of hardship.
2.
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
Ernest Shackleton
Obstacles are merely opportunities to conquer.
3.
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
Soren Kierkegaard
'The challenge is the way, not the goal.'
4.
Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
Alistair Begg
Christianity is not about circumventing the hardships of life - it is about tackling the tribulations of life.
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If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through
Greg Laurie
If you are aspiring to comply with the Lord, anticipate resistance. Foresee impediments. Prepare for hardships. But also trust God to sustain you.
6.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
Jean Vanier
7.
Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
Henry Blackaby
8.
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
Enid Blyton
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Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
10.
The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
Harold B. Lee
12.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
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Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.
Origen
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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Anne Sullivan Macy
15.
The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
Angus Buchan
16.
Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
Aubrey de Grey
17.
My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
Shawn Johnson
18.
Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
John Smith
20.
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
David R. Hawkins
21.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
Socrates
22.
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
Lascelles Abercrombie
23.
I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.
Charles Olson
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The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you.
Rees Howells
25.
The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
David Ricardo
26.
Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.
Joyce Meyer
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When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
George Muller
29.
When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.
Emmet Fox
30.
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.
Sofia Coppola
31.
When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
32.
As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.
Alistair Begg
33.
Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
Pythagoras
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The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.
Peter Block
35.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Thomas Aquinas
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The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.
Emmet Fox
38.
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.
Mem Fox
39.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Zane Grey
40.
An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.
Evariste Galois
41.
Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.
Harry Gordon Selfridge
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The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.
Shunryu Suzuki
43.
A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
Max Planck
44.
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
Jane Addams
45.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
John Carmack
46.
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
Charles de Gaulle
47.
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
Jean-Baptiste Say
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The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.
Sri Chinmoy
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The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
Andrew Loomis