Quotes about Boundaries

Indeed, the only truely serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truely serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set limits, describes the boundaries of human exsistence.

humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

He wants it both ways—the language and credibility of science, but without being bound by its method and rules.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

The church may not function as a fearful border guard, but rather as one who brings good tidings (Romans 10:15; Isaiah 52:7 ... For Christ died for us 'while we were yet sinners, while we were enemies' (Romans 5:8,10). All hardness, imprudence and rashness can only be signs that she has forgotten the gracious overstepping of the boundaries at her birth.

When a toxic person attacks us, let's think these words first: I honor my Father in heaven above all things. Pleasing you or getting you to agree with me isn't my first goal in life. After explaining his motivation, Jesus puts the issue back on the toxic person, where it belongs. This isn't about me because I'm honoring my Father; this is about you because you're dishonoring me.

One of Satan's cleverest attacks is getting us to pour our time and energy into people who resent the grace we share and who will never change, keeping us from spending time with and focusing on others whom we can love and serve.