Quotes about Limitations

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

In this great day when most women wave banners of authenticity about our pasts, we crouch back from honesty about our presents. We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

I renounce every limit I have ever placed on Jesus. I renounce every limit I have placed on him in my life. I break all limitations, renounce them, revoke them. Jesus, forgive me for restraining you in my life.

No one can see God's face" (see Exodus 33:20). What do they mean when they say that no one can see God's face? They mean that we cannot see God as he is. We are not capable of this. We inevitably project our own fallenness onto God.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

We give life meaning not only through our actions but also through loving and, finally, through suffering. Because how human beings deal with the limitation of their possibilities regarding how it affects their actions and their ability to love, how they behave under these restrictions—the way in which they accept their suffering under such restrictions—in all of this they still remain capable of fulfilling human values.

A human being, it is true, is a finite being. However, to the extent to which he understands his finiteness, he also overcomes it.

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

I am listening, I am diligently trying to collect all the brains that are borrowable in order that I may not make more blunders than it is inevitable that a man should make who has great limitations of knowledge and capacity.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.