Quotes about Instability

The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;

which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out

People dont feel safe no more, he said. We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We dont even know what color they'll be.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. "Pick me up", is the message of a person who keeps falling.

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

de Chardin said, "Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability — and that it may take a very long time. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.