Quotes about Ambiguity

You know, there's a thing that stumps me. You're the coldest man I know. And I can't understand why - knowing that you're actually a fiend in your quiet sort of way - why I always feel, when I see you, that you're the most life-giving person I've ever met.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

Embrace the tension.

To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

Spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.