Quotes about Limitation

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I am only limited by what I believe is possible.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Grace is just the natural loving flow of things when we allow it, instead of resisting it. Sin is any cutting or limiting of that circuit.

All theologies are blasphemous in so far as they attempt to reduce God to something that can be known through the understanding by which we know other things.

In a certain but real sense, the church itself is the first cross that Jesus is crucified on, as we limit, mangle, and try to control the always too big message. All the churches seem to crucify Jesus again and again by their inability to receive his whole body, but they often resurrect him too. I am without doubt a microcosm of this universal church.

The joyful acceptance of a limited world, of which I am only a small moment and limited part—this is probably the clearest indication of a man in his fullness.