Quotes about Complexity

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.

It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

the depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christians is either minimized—since we are already justified—or psychologized as a symptom of woundedness rather than corruption.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.