Quotes about Ambiguity

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.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.