“I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.” ThinkingYearsThreeNextDoubtFourFrontsToughEuropeDifficultyNo DoubtFour YearsPreparingTough TimesStagnation Author:Carlos Ghosn
“Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.” WantGivingEyeLordDoubtTearsPrayingEnlightenmentDifficultyRemoveFinding YourselfAnguishIlluminationPraying To GodImpurityTears In Your Eyes Author:Sarada Devi
“Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.” LooksMayTurnsFearDoubtObjectsProveDifficultyTablesGhostDoctrineTwilightGhastly Book:The Recreations of a Country Parson Source: The Recreations of a Country Parson
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.” MenWayLifeWarMomentsEnergyDifficultHistoryDoubtMilitaryDangerDutyDifficultyAngerAdversitySalvationCurrentsAidsPhasesUncertainHistoricBattlefieldsAscent Book:Report to Greco Source: Report to Greco
“The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.” LoveHandsLosesPleasureHalfDoubtDangerWillingFlowerLoversDifficultyMeritHuntersPerfume Book:Waverley Novels Source: Waverley Novels
“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.” PeopleKindSometimesSufferingWealthCasesRichDoubtMaterialsAmountAnxietyBiggerDifficultyEncountersWealthyMaterial WealthDoubt And Fear Author:Dalai Lama
“You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?” MenMayAbleDoubtPoetOughtDifficultyProfoundSolveTreasureGreat MenWord Of GodVersesRenowned Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.” MeanTwoSpiritualUnderstandingPracticeDoubtTeacherPossibilityAspectDeterminationDifficultySticksWork OutAriseClarityRelatedSeatsSpiritual Work Author:Jack Kornfield
“[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.” IfsMenWayMayWarUseRunningLawFallDoubtDangerWillingArmsOughtBattleMy FriendsDifficultyFasterKneesNo DoubtAvoidingEscapingUnrighteousnessAvoiding Death Author:Socrates