Quotes About Stumbling

#1. She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men. - Author: Jack London

#2. There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises - Author: Carl Sagan

#3. In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#4. God doesn't promise to remove the stones from the path, but He does promise to make them stepping-stones and not stumbling blocks. He promises to help us climb higher because of the difficulties of life. - Author: Warren W. Wiersbe

#5. The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less "controllable" than say, the urban dweller. - Author: Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#6. In the end, forgetting is nothing but turning a page in the book of life. It may seem an easy matter, but as long as you can't tear it, you will keep on stumbling upon it between each season of your life. - Author: Nizar Qabbani

#7. With feet on solid ground, we walk across stumbling blocks, yet we survive! Through eyes that cloud with tears of pain or struggle, yet we survive! With hands that touch the thorns of life, yet we survive! Through faith and purpose and face as flint, YET WE SURVIVE! - Author: Lorna Jackie Wilson

#8. What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. - Author: Andrew Marvell

#9. Read the book through, undeterred and undismayed by the paragraphs, footnotes, comments, and references that escape you. If you let yourself get stalled, if you allow yourself to be tripped up by any one of these stumbling blocks, you are lost. - Author: Mortimer J. Adler

#10. Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. - Author: William Shakespeare

#11. For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much. - Author: Susan Cain

#12. Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma'am. Like, an emergency, you know. Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted the stumbling - Author: Elizabeth Peters

#13. Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts. - Author: Dwight L. Moody

#14. Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them. - Author: Anonymous

#15. away, stumbling over roots and among vines in the dark, no two plunging in the same direction. A furious blast roared through the trees, making everything - Author: Anonymous

#16. 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. - Author: Linda Olsson

#17. Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods. - Author: Ken Follett

#18. Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#19. Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built. - Author: Henry Allen Ironside

#20. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. - Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#21. What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? - Author: Elizabeth Kostova

#22. This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated. - Author: Robert Jarvik

#23. We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive. - Author: Eleanor Catton

#24. 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. - Author: Alfred Austin

#25. Molly slapped the lid back down then pushed past Luce into the foyer stumbling over Shelby in her path.
"Excuse you " they said gruffly at the same time eyeing each other suspiciously.
"Oh good. " Gabbe leaned in to give Luce a hug. "Molly's made a friend." - Author: Lauren Kate

#26. Let your pain birth your purpose. Let your mess become your message. Let this be a stepping-stone and not a stumbling block. Change - Author: Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

#27. The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer. - Author: George MacDonald

#28. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. - Author: Winston S. Churchill

#29. Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic. - Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

#30. A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. - Author: Cullen Hightower

#31. There's no way in hell I'm getting out of this bed and going for a run, he murmured onto her head. She chuckled quietly. His hands grazed lower, down her back, not even stumbling over the scar tissue. He'd kissed every scar on her back, on her entire body, last night. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#32. Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith. - Author: W. H. Auden

#33. Stumbling is not falling. - Author: Malcolm X

#34. I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written. - Author: Donella Meadows

#35. But when the sun goes down? We're all just stumbling through the darkness, trying to outlast another night. - Author: Tessa Dare

#36. Instead of showing compassion, or good sense, or care, many people regarded the clinic with hate and disgust. Every age thought they were so enlightened, and every age was stumbling around in much the same darkness of ignorance and fear. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#37. The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.' - Author: Chandra Wilson

#38. Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. - Author: Lynne Truss

#39. 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. - Author: Neale Donald Walsch

#40. He was confused. I was confused. Just like every couple who ever had to climb over a few stumbling blocks was confused. That was romance.It wasn't paint-by-numbers or color within the lines. It was messy and scribbly and up to us to draw it how we wanted. - Author: Pepper Winters

#41. Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing. - Author: Brenda Poinsett

#42. What do you live for when everyone and everything you love is gone? Do you keep going, keep stumbling through the dark, or do you find something new to cherish? Maybe neither. Maybe you walk silently and ignore the blows time takes on your heart. - Author: Courtney M. Privett

#43. I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man almost miraculously become domesticated. - Author: D. Cypriani Regis

#44. I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God? - Author: James Comey

#45. Life is a Horse driven cart, Fate its driver
You are the horse, Passengers - as allotted by God
Sometimes rides to a wedding, sometimes to the graveyard
On stumbling, there is always the earth. - Author: D.V.G

#46. To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way. - Author: Jesse Harris

#47. Regeneration is the beginning of a journey. It is a journey with successes and failures, with growth amid stumbling. At times, the progress seems painfully slow, but progress is there. - Author: R.C. Sproul

#48. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks. - Author: Benjamin Zander

#49. It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it. - Author: Leonard Cohen

#50. For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel. - Author: John Vockler

#51. The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through - Author: Jeff Mangum

#52. You never see Beyonce stumbling out of a club drunk and on drugs without underwear on - nor do you see Justin Timberlake pashing 5 chicks in a club. You never hear them slagging anyone in the media ... They are composed and somewhat mysterious and that fascinates me! - Author: Ricki-Lee Coulter

#53. The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts. - Author: Brandon Mull

#54. The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. - Author: Julia Child

#55. Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not. - Author: Daniel M. Gilbert

#56. Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history. - Author: David Novak

#57. I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal. - Author: Beau Willimon

#58. He then eyed Tristan and took a step back, stumbling over his cloak. "You must be the earl's twin brother. But your eyes ... how are they so green?"
"They were brown until your heathen of a cousin shot me through the heart," Tristan said crossly. - Author: Chelsea Fine

#59. Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ! - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#60. You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; - Author: Anonymous

#61. Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence. - Author: Alex Gaskarth

#62. Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded. - Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer

#63. My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought she would give in. Day followed day, and the terrible stumbling sounds went on for hours on end.
She did not know what else to do. - Author: Helen DeWitt

#64. The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us. - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#65. My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. - Author: Helen Keller

#66. I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God. - Author: Henri Nouwen

#67. There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic. - Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

#68. I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks. - Author: Roger Corman

#69. HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling. - Author: Sinclair Lewis

#70. What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on. - Author: Mother Teresa

#71. Is this how we make our way to death? Blue wondered. A stumbling fade-out instead of a self-aware finale? - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#72. Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street - Author: Dave Matthews

#73. We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.:
Glitch snorted. More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark. - Author: Darynda Jones

#74. Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#75. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. - Author: Lord Byron

#76. 13Then let us no longer judge one another, but rather resolve never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. - Author: Anonymous

#77. 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. - Author: Anna Quindlen

#78. You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect. - Author: Josh Lanyon

#79. 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. - Author: Aberjhani

#80. Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse. - Author: William Shakespeare

#81. 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. - Author: Jacques Maritain

#82. They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion. - Author: J.B. Phillips

#83. Life is going to throw you some blocks. You will decide if they are going to be your stumbling blocks or your building blocks - Author: Saji Ijiyemi

#84. My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance. - Author: Damian Kulash

#85. I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records. - Author: Nile Rodgers

#86. Consciously, she thought she had her feelings for him licked; subconsciously, every time she thought about him, it was as though someone stumbling around inside her head had kicked over a bucket of electric eels. - Author: John Ramsey Miller

#87. I offer my life's breath for the sake of the Cross, which is a stumbling block to the unbelievers, but to us it is salvation and eternal life. - Author: Ignatius Of Antioch

#88. What if it's the there
and not the here
that I long for?
The wander
and not the wait,
the magic
in the lost feet
stumbling down
the faraway street
and the way the moon
never hangs
quite the same. - Author: Tyler Knott Gregson

#89. God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused. - Author: Sierra Simone

#90. Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked. - Author: Irvine Welsh

#91. Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue. - Author: T.C. Boyle

#92. Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#93. It's kind of like stumbling upon the scene of an accident. Once you've looked, you're part of it. Especially if you walk away. - Author: Courtney Summers

#94. Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block. - Author: Toba Beta

#95. The real orphans are words, always stumbling about to capture what must be said. And here they go again. - Author: Nathan Leslie

#96. I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland. - Author: Ann Widdecombe

#97. 24To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - 25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. - Author: Anonymous

#98. By your stumbling, the world is perfected. - Author: Sri Aurobindo

#99. The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind. - Author: Jay Crownover

#100. 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. - Author: Stephen Jay Gould