Stumbling Stone Quotes

#1. There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. For Jesus and for his followers, the crucifixion became the dramatic symbol of that necessary and absurd stumbling stone.

Richard Rohr

#2. Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Khalil Gibran

#3. In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

Jack Kornfield

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

Shawn Achor

#5. But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with me, not who she was, and I am humbled by my ignorance.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

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

L.R. Knost

#7. Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

Ron Holland

#8. God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

Thomas Watson

#9. I finally understood - nearly twenty years too late.

Gillian Flynn

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

Benny Lewis

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

Irvine Welsh

#13. The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.

Roy Yamaguchi

#14. 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

#15. All men have magic wands. A woman gets a babe after a man raises his wand and pokes her with it. If she feeds him first, she gets a boy, and, if she licks his wand first, she gets a girl." Barwolf waved a hand in front of her, fanning her neck. "You do want babies, do you not?

Mary McCall

#16. We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Carl Von Clausewitz

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

Richie Norton

#18. What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

Walter Russell Mead

#19. 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

#20. We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

Jerry Yang

#21. Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

Dalai Lama

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

Cullen Hightower

#23. 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.

#24. As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

#25. To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

Derrick Wolf

#26. If this saying did not exist, somebody would have invented it.

Joe R. Lansdale