Quotes about Perplexity

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

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.

There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on.

There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on.

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

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

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

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