Stumbling Block Quotes

#1. This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.

Thomas Merton

#2. The cancer wasn't a stumbling block.

Joel Osteen

#3. But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.

Joe Slovo

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

Paul Gauguin

#5. Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block. You do not know what you want. You are better at approving the right course than at following it out. You see where the true happiness lies, but you have not the courage to attain it.

Seneca.

#7. But if rejection was his only stumbling block, then pride was his real problem

Mesu Andrews

#8. I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

John Kessel

#9. Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Arthur Desmond

#10. The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

John Piper

#11. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Flannery O'Connor

#12. Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

Clifford D. Simak

#13. The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.

Jonathan Lethem

#14. This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.

Michael David Lukas

#15. A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.

Benny Lewis

#17. I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

Henri Nouwen

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

Andre Maurois

#19. 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.

Joey Harrington

#20. You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Susan Lucci

#21. Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

L.R. Knost

#23. There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.

Roopleen

#24. To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief ... Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. If you are living your life to the best of your ability, and pursuing your purpose, you will not be jealous, envious or try to place a stumbling block in the way of another person.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#26. If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Paul Cezanne

#27. If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Brand Blanshard

#28. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

#29. As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Blake Mycoskie

#30. I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.

~Jessop

Agatha Christie

#31. Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Shawn Achor

#32. Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block

Sunday Adelaja

#33. View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

Elana Meyers

#34. What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

Mother Teresa

#35. 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.

David Novak

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

Julia Child

#37. 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.

Madeleine L'Engle

#38. 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.

Stephen Jay Gould

#39. Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.

Toba Beta

#40. Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. 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.

Anonymous

#42. 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.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#43. 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.

Jacques Maritain

#44. 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.

Neale Donald Walsch

#45. 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.

Eleanor Catton

#46. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#47. 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.

Ken Follett

#48. 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.

Dwight L. Moody

#49. 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.

John Vockler

#50. 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.

Oswald Chambers

#51. Utopians ... consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

Thomas Steven Molnar

#52. Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion ... Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure ... Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

Ezra Taft Benson

#53. Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

Robert Guillaume

#54. Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?

Richie Norton

#55. By the study of Boltzmann I have been unable to understand him. He could not understand me on account of my shortness, and his length was and is an equal stumbling block to me.

James Clerk Maxwell

#56. The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Charles Ghigna

#57. In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block

C.S. Woolley

#58. Your only stumbling block is the man in the mirror

Thabiso Monkoe

#59. A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Cullen Hightower

#60. 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.

W. H. Auden

#61. Let your pain birth your purpose. Let your mess become your message. Let this be a stepping-stone and not a stumbling block. Change

Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

#62. 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?

James Comey

#63. 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.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#64. Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

Charles Spurgeon

#65. 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.

Henry Allen Ironside

#66. Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.

Nicole Haislett

#67. Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

Robin Sharma

#68. What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Orison Swett Marden

#69. Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

Bruce Lee

#70. 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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#71. Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Brian Tracy