Quotes about Limitations

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

What you can and can't afford is all in your mind.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.     Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬Jenny Holzer; artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance

Your work and relationship realities. Our work remains "thorns and thistles" (Genesis 3:18). It is hard. We never totally finish. There is always a grief in never having complete fulfillment. Relationships will not be perfect until heaven. Who wouldn't like a perfect, loving church where everyone has the time, energy, and maturity to love everyone else perfectly! We must grieve that limit also or we will demand from them something they cannot give.

Lord, forgive me for the arrogance that sees interruptions to my plans as alien invasions. Forgive me for constantly trying to do more than you intend with my life. Help me to be like John the Baptist, embracing my losses and respecting my limits. In Jesus' name, amen.

It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." —C. S. Lewis

life without peace, is the result of trying to do something about something you cannot do anything about.

The old limits of the possible have been exposed as fraudulent inventions designed to keep the powerless in their places. Jesus violates such invented limitations and opens the world to the impossible. He ends that defiant declaration with the admonition: "And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me" (v. 23).

If finite games must be externally bounded by time, space, and number, they must also have internal limitations on what the players can do to and with each other. To agree on internal limitations is to establish rules of play.