Quotes about Perplexity

But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

For while the unbelievers flourish, they do not know what is waiting for them on the next day; therefore, they must always live in turmoil because of perplexity and fear; neither

“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

“What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.

I confess to your Charity that I have learned to yield this respect and honour only to the canonical books of Scripture: of these alone do I most firmly believe that the authors were completely free from error. And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hesitate to suppose that either the manuscript is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself have failed to understand it (Ibid., 82.1.3).

When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?

And they were unable to answer these questions.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the reason for his current state of perplexity and distress. The heavy burden on his back is his awakened knowledge and sense of his own sin. The man discovers the frightful condition of his heart, which provokes genuine and constant fears of damnation. These fears are an ever-present weight upon his entire person. 4.