Best Stumbling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block”

Wealth Money Sacrifice Prosperity Riches Block Dedication Stumbling Christians Specific Becomes

“The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.”

Source: Mary Marston

“Progress, one step after another, steps long and steps short, stumbling, slipping backward, but continuing to put one foot in front of the other, even when the feet are weary.”

Progress Stumbling Slipping

Author:H. Melvin James

“Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Art I Can School Film Careers Yeah Stem Stumbling

Author:Karen O

“In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.”

Artist House Taken Huge Mets Jew Resistance Block Officials Germany Memorial Controversial Stumbling Brass Stumbling Blocks Cobblestone

Author:Amy Waldman

“Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.”

Men Hard Novel Cutting Crime Remains Edges Bones Redemption Portraits Carter Stumbling Crime Novels

Author:James Sallis

“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

Reason Seeing Worst Blind Cures Blindness Stumbling

Book:Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version

Source: Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version

“Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.”

People Successful Stones Adversity Block Successful People Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Shawn Achor

“America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.”

People Way Love Giving Country Light America Values Principles Darkness Succeed Determination Hatred Democratic Torches Stumbling Divisiveness Determination To Succeed

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”

Mind Character Feelings Might Reading Style Proposal Signatures Arriving Stumbling Forged American Poetry Compression Thoughts And Words

Author:Forrest Gander

“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.”

Thinking Knows Dark Rooms Cry Idiot Furniture Stumbling Stifling Dark Room

Book:The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance

Source: The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance

“Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.”

Men Children Made Pain Lasts Fall Left Water Behinds Feet Movement Made It Ran Smoking Rolling Left Behind Men Women Stumbling Pavement Drumming Rubble Tripping Rolling Over

Author:Martin Caidin

“I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.”

Trying Night Dark Cities Blood Freeze Stumbling

Author:Isaac Marion

“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.”

“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”

Art Eye Imagination Objects Ignorance Color Block Fixed My Imagination Stumbling Unchangeable Crayon Stumbling Blocks

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes you don't notice, and this is very sad. Sometimes you lose them again. This is sad too, but not as sad. Because what you have once had together you have forever.”

People Needs Sometimes Together Given Loses Forever Precise Stumbling Very Sad

Book:The Memory of Love: A Novel

Source: The Memory of Love: A Novel

“Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.”

Trying Lines Progress Design Block Encounters Links Smooth Stumbling Stumbling Blocks Single Line Vertebrates Invertebrates

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.”

World Children Stills Known Shapes Weapons Size Monsters Socialism Greek Homosexuality Stumbling

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.”

Mind Age Past Poor Century Eternal Fallen Temples Grants Pants Altars Melting Stumbling Mirages Refreshments

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.”

Thinking Way Believe Helping Dream Kids Past Can Do Walks Numbers Deserve Get Up Stumbling

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.”

Philosophy Facts Hands Christianity Modern Western Block Construction Stumbling Stumbling Blocks Western Philosophy Modern Philosophy

Book:An essay on Christian philosophy

Source: An essay on Christian philosophy

“The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...”

Art Age Support Growing Generations Old Age Block Growing Old Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Andre Maurois

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”

“The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.”

Humans Long Use Values Social Technology Mankind Block Human History Decency Arrows Stumbling Human Values Social Systems Convergence Stumbling Blocks Artefacts

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Jesus Taken Accounts Excuse Accomplish Block Liars Inability Obedient Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.”

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Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.”

Weather Evening Thunder Stumbling Sullen Binge

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?”

Way Children Doe Stills Past Faces Father Force Social Change Behinds Eternity Our Children Shoulders Resistance One Way Why Not Status Quo Our Father Reluctant Stumbling Relics

Book:The Home

Source: The Home

“God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.”

Made Eye Running Law Evil Justice Darkness Feet Terrible Caught Block Good Will Intricate Stumbling Mesh Stumbling Blocks Eyes That See

Author:Jessie Sampter

“We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.”

Thinking Knows Littles Stills Be Good Block Optimistic Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Joey Harrington

“I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.”

People Ifs Want Needs Trying Wells Two Song Sound Realizing Hours Known Laughing Horse Tired Lists Checks Bored Well Known Feedback Request Tricky I'm Tired Stumbling Ballads Wild Horses

Author:Mick Jagger

“I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.”

Believe Ideas Facts Parent Adventure Passionate Not Sure Experts Engaged Imperfect Daring Traveler Researchers Stumbling

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

“I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.”

Pieces Information Pages Photograph Newspapers Printed Irresistible Hooked Stumbling Serendipity

Author:Jill Abramson

“Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.”

People Has Beens Claims Clouds Stumbling

Author:Aberjhani

“President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.”

Should Care President Imagine Stupid Should Have Strategy Apology Imagine That Apologizing President Bush Stumbling Stupid Things No One Cares

Author:Jay Leno

“The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.”

World Littles Together Faces Speak Bits Little Bit Faster Rejection Mail Humiliation Face To Face Stumbling Coming Together Disposable Breaking Apart

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.”

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”

Ambition Block Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Arthur Desmond

“At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.”

“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Should Use Christian Law Choices Evil Force Know How Authority Granted Sinner Crowns Persuasion Forbidden Stumbling

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.”

Age Dark Youth Fairs Parks Gray Stumbling Toothless Stags

Author:I. L. Peretz

“We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.”

Way Believe Mean Individual Common Share Awareness Garden Stupidity Block Customs Discontent Eden Stumbling Garden Of Eden Stumbling Blocks

Book:Romance and reality, by L.E.L.

Source: Romance and reality, by L.E.L.

“Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.”

Way Has Beens Important Views Enemy Obstacles Block Opposing Often Is Your Best Friend Stumbling Detours Be Your Best Stumbling Blocks

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.”

World Dream Crazy Stumbling Blurry

Author:Jeff Mangum

“Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.”

Has Beens Important Fighting Parent My Own Lessons Battle Grateful I've Learned Stumbling Important Lessons

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.”

Ifs Doubt Rising No Doubt Wiser Stumbling Precarious

Author:Allan Weisbecker

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”

Men Inspiring Laughing Laughter Witty Tongue Wit Now And Then Ridicule Jane Stumbling Abusive International Women's Day Pride And Prejudice Book Always Laughing

Author:Jane Austen

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