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Stumbling Block Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quote: "Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange..."
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. Gustave Flaubert
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling..."
The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The truth is that so long as we hold both sides of the proposition together they contain nothing inconsistent with right belief, but as soon as one is divorced from the other, it is bound to prove a stumbling block. "Only those who believe obey" is what we say to that part of a believer's soul which obeys, and "only those who obey believe" is what we say to that part of the soul of the obedient which believes. If the first half of the proposition stands alone, the believer is exposed to the... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the..."
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. Eleanor Roosevelt
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 Dostoevsky
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
Julia Child quote: "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking..."
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. Julia Child
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
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
Julia Child quote: "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking..."
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. Julia Child
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
Paul Gauguin quote: "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and..."
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Paul Gauguin
Amber Frey quote: "In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks..."
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. Amber Frey
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

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