Quotes about Limitations

The best of men are just men at best.

You can capture a butterfly, and pin its wings down to study the colors and shape and design, but the moment that butterfly is still and you're able to make the most precise and detailed observations about that butterfly is the moment the butterfly can't fly anymore.

You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.

No one ever has the resources they need.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Your work and relationship realities. Our work remains "thorns and thistles" (Genesis 3:18). It is hard. We never totally finish. There is always a grief in never having complete fulfillment. Relationships will not be perfect until heaven. Who wouldn't like a perfect, loving church where everyone has the time, energy, and maturity to love everyone else perfectly! We must grieve that limit also or we will demand from them something they cannot give.

Lord, forgive me for the arrogance that sees interruptions to my plans as alien invasions. Forgive me for constantly trying to do more than you intend with my life. Help me to be like John the Baptist, embracing my losses and respecting my limits. In Jesus' name, amen.

It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." —C. S. Lewis

life without peace, is the result of trying to do something about something you cannot do anything about.