Quotes about Limitations

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Lord. I must recognize that God, in his awesome glory, is the only being in the universe who exists in timelessness. He has created me to live in and for a certain time and place. I must do all he has called me to do within the limits of the time he has given me.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life.

God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.

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.

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief.

We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.