Stumbling Blocks Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Fitness, Attitude, Block

  "Napoleon Hill's Master Key/ Learning from Adversity/ Storyline". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1954.

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• Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Block, Causes, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.175, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Mother Teresa

  Block, Rocks, Steps

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.113, New World Library

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• 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

  Block, Believe, Mean

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.176

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• God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.

  Jessie Sampter

  Running, Block, Eye

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• 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 the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Block, Order

  Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1963, p. 81

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Block, Soul, Victory

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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• 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

  Christmas, Friday, Easter

  "Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry". Book by Anthony Hecht, p. 135, 2005.

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• The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Determination, Block

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Arrows

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• 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

  Block, Pride, Zion

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• The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful.

  Michael Josephson

  Block, Positivity, Successful

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• 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

  Block, Struggle, Mind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Children, Memories, Block

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

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• Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Block, Illustration, Class

  Tales of Mystery and Imagination The Murders in the Rue Morgue (p. 208)

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• 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

  Block, Believe, America

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

  Cullen Hightower

  Block, Stones, Stumbling

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• In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

  Amy Waldman

  Block, Taken, Artist

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• [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 into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Struggle, Men

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• And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.

  Richard Baxter

  Block, Blow, Fire

  "The Christian directory".

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• 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

  Block, Design, Progress

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

  Thomas Steven Molnar

  Block, Ideas, May

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• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• 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 hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Nuts, Land

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.139, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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