Quotes about Complexity
We need to hold together all of the stages of life, and for some strange, wonderful reason, it all becomes quite "simple" as we approach our later years.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Too many things to say. Too many things unsaid.
— Kristen Heitzmann
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
— St. Augustine
There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.
— Colleen Coble
You must have carbon. Arsenic, boron, and silicon are the only other elements on which complex molecules can be based, but arsenic and boron are relatively rare and, where concentrated, poisonous to life, and silicon can hold together no more than about a hundred amino acids. Only carbon yields the chemical bonding stability and bonding complexity that life requires. Given the constraints of physics and chemistry, we now know that physical life must be carbon-based.
— Hugh Ross
Do the laws governing the universe allow us to predict exactly what is going to happen to us in the future? The short answer is no, and yes. In principle, the laws allow us to predict the future. But in practice the calculations are often too difficult.
— Stephen Hawking
Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.
— Timothy Keller
Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
— Richard Paul Evans
On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)
— Philip Yancey
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maybe faith has less to do with gaining knowledge and more to do with causing wonder. Maybe a relationship with God doesn't simplify your lives. Maybe it complicates our lives in ways that they should be complicated.
— Mark Batterson