“These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.” — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“The mind that puts everything in question reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Christians often get into perplexity about worldly allurements by asking, 'Where is the sin of this, or the danger of that?' There… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
“A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet,… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
