Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
But a faith that requires us to hold on to what we "know" becomes, we eventually discover, inadequate for handling the peaks and valleys of our humanity. It's also exhausting to try to hold it all together as it once was.
— Peter Enns
Wisdom teaches us to embrace both the adequacy and the limitations of our God-talk, to keep the two in tension. Perhaps accepting that paradox is true faith.
— Peter Enns
trust—not clarity, not certainty, but trust in God. And all of that poured out to the people around her.
— Peter Enns
As quite distinct from Jewish interpretation, the history of modern evangelical interpretation exhibits a strong degree of discomfort with the tensions and ambiguities of Scripture.
— Peter Enns
Adjusting our understanding of God isn't a sign of weak faith, nor is it an attack on faith—it is faith.
— Peter Enns
Doubt is God's way of helping us not go there, though the road may be very hard and long.
— Peter Enns
What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.
— Peter Enns
I've learned to be fine with not knowing.
— Peter Enns
Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.
— Peter Enns
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.
— Peter Kreeft
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
— Peter Kreeft
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
— Genesis 18:15