It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on stuff they can hit
Sam McDowell
"My thoughts are not your thoughts. For as high as the heavens are the above the earth, so are my thoughts above your thoughts, my ways above your ways." should be written over every pulpit. Because so often we think that God's ways are our ways. God's thoughts are our thoughts. And we created God in our own image and likeness saying, "God approves of this. God forbids that. God desires the other." This is where some of the worst atrocities of religion have come from. Because people have used [it] to give a sacred seal of a divine approval to some of their most worst hatreds, loathings, and fears. Whereas to the great theologians what I found when I was studying for A History Of God the great theologians in all three of the monotheistic religions, Jewish, Christian, Muslim all insisted that yes, God was personal. But God went beyond the personal. You shouldn't speak glibly about God in Judaism you may not speak God's name as a reminder that any human expression of the divine is likely to be so limited as to be blasphemous. But God should challenge your assumptions you shouldn't imagine you've got Him in your pocket.
Karen Armstrong
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren
We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Ida R. Wylie
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge
Bette Greene
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible
Hillary Clinton
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space
Rebecca West
That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the other side there is always hope
Senator John Kerry
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day
Jesse Jackson
We choose to go...not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place
Marian Wright Edelman
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed
Anthony Robbins
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat
Napoleon Bonaparte