Quotes about Limitation

So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.

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

You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.

Without the voice, hands, and feet of a human being, an evil spirit is limited in what it can accomplish.

I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part—which is more than enough to keep us busy.

The Bible, just as it is, still works. Don't try to explain it. Just accept it. That won't make you a mindless zombie. It just means you are accepting your own human limitations and acknowledging by faith that something bigger than ourselves is happening, someone bigger is behind it, and we have the privilege to be a part of it.

But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

After Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’

He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”