Stumbling Block Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard
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
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… — Thomas Merton
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Robert Guillaume
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. — Thomas Steven Molnar
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
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… — Simone Weil
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… — Ezra Taft Benson
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… — John Vockler
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God. — Henri Nouwen
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… — Dwight L. Moody
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
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… — Elana Meyers
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at… — Pericles
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block. — Shawn Achor

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