Quotes about Perplexity

They had answers to all of their own questions, but no answer for mine.

If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.

God makes us ask ourselves questions most often when He intends to resolve them. He gives us needs that He alone can satisfy, and awakens capacities that He means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation, leading to a new birth and a mystical regeneration.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.

He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been—for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?