“If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.” IfsIdeasOur LivesImagineHairPleaseDifficultyImagine ThatAvoidingDesperation Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.” Has BeensSelfFeelingsPurposeFriendshipUnitedOur LivesDangerFriendsOrdinaryDifficultyObstaclesAssociationInsurmountableIncompleteness Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.” YearsMaySoulLastsOpportunityJesusWinningChristWalksPathOur LivesJourneyCenturyDutyConflictDifficultyDetermineTrialsHillsHeightMarchNew YearLast YearClosestFellowshipSunnyNew Opportunity Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.” PeopleShouldPainSufferingNaturalStruggleOur LivesBearsProudAnxietyBasesDifficultyPreparedRidiculousRevolutionaryMysticismInvitesBe PreparedPain And Suffering Book:Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation
“Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.” HeartMeanSocialDifficultChristRichOur LivesSolitudeAnxietyCrossesDifficultyRewardsInjusticeIncomeDiscriminationRecognitionUnjustAssuredReally LivingUnjust Society Book:Thinking about God: an introduction to theology Source: Thinking about God: an introduction to theology
“Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.” IfsWholeFacesRealizingChallengesOur LivesJourneyEssentialsCapableDifficultyInterruptionsChallenges We Face Author:Kimora Lee Simmons
“You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.” IfsI CanPainPurposeArtistCertainCan DoAudienceOur LivesStageDyingFrontsPerformancesDifficultyMirrorsYou Can Do ItI Can Do This Author:Marina Abramovic
“The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.” DifferentForceRoomsOur LivesInfluenceShapesDifficultyMold Author:Charles Dickens
“Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.” LongProblemRunningFormHateOur LivesDangerDifficultyAdversityVariousRunning AwayTiedBondageExaminingProspectsAversion Author:Patanjali