“The perplexity, the potential— God’s own crucible was not for angels.” — Johnny Worthen Copy Share Image
“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.” — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity” — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. — Confucius Copy Share Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read… — William Wilberforce 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
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and… — Aristotle 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
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 success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt 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
“From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy 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
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.” — Grover Cleveland 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
“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
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
