Quotes about Ambiguity

If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These are the areas of my proficiency.

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

You cannot predict the future.

But he is now suddenly untouched by its charms. He seems for the first time to sense that there might be something more. Something is troubling him that he's only just beginning to sense, whose shape he can hardly yet make out in the dim light.

I do not know what the future holds for me.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

Well, I don't know, said the Story Girl thoughtfully. I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are , and true things that are not , but might be.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.