Quotes about Limitation

they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Grace is just the natural loving flow of things when we allow it, instead of resisting it. Sin is any cutting or limiting of that circuit.

All theologies are blasphemous in so far as they attempt to reduce God to something that can be known through the understanding by which we know other things.

In a certain but real sense, the church itself is the first cross that Jesus is crucified on, as we limit, mangle, and try to control the always too big message. All the churches seem to crucify Jesus again and again by their inability to receive his whole body, but they often resurrect him too. I am without doubt a microcosm of this universal church.

The joyful acceptance of a limited world, of which I am only a small moment and limited part—this is probably the clearest indication of a man in his fullness.

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.

God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God.

When you think of the limitation in your life, you may be tempted to conclude, "God could never use me." But God is never limited by our limitations.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.