Quotes about Confusion

The disciples looked at one another, perplexed as to which of them He meant.

But no one at the table knew why Jesus had said this to him.

“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Meanwhile the assembly was in turmoil. Some were shouting one thing and some another, and most of them did not even know why they were there.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.

Nowhere does this tendency toward artificial harmony show itself more than in mission-driven nonprofit organizations, most notably churches. People who work in those organizations tend to have a misguided idea that they cannot be frustrated or disagreeable with one another. What they're doing is confusing being nice with being kind.