Quotes about Confusion
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.
- Philip Yancey
see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
- Philip Yancey
Few things exasperate a child more than inconsistency. Pity the horse that has a rider who gives it mixed signals, digging his heels into its side and pulling the reins at the same time. Even more, pity the child who has the rules changed by a capricious father, and who is always exasperated because of the conflicting messages he receives.
- Kent Hughes
The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.
- Dennis Prager
We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently. Faith in any god who makes any other primary demand will ultimately fail to solve the problem of evil. And any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail
- Dennis Prager
We need to step back and look at the more fundamental question: What was the author originally saying? We cannot simply read our own understandings into the meaning of a word or statement someone else wrote or said. And when we look at some often bizarre-sounding parts of the Bible, we have to try to discover who the original audience was and view the text through their lens, not ours. If we don't, the possibilities for confusion are endless.
- Dan Kimball
Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.
- Andy Stanley
To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also.
- John Bunyan
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. —DON MARQUIS
- John Maxwell
Financial advisory may offer "A path to a better future" without realizing that could be confused for a gym, a college, a church, or just about anything else.
- Donald Miller
Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.
- Donald Miller
Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.
- Donald Trump