Quotes about Perplexing

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”

If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source it comes. We shouldn't fear the truth. Some of it will be from science, obviously, but by no means all of it. It will sometimes by perplexing, how this bit of truth relates to that bit of truth; we know that within science itself often enough and we find it outside of science as well. The crucial thing is to be honest.

When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.

When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”