Quotes About Ambiguities

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

The exercise of the charismata, in Tillich's terms, confronts the ambiguities of life from within the unity of nature and spirit driving toward the transcendent. In Pentecostals' terms, the charismata are the participation in the Spirit of the coming kingdom of God.

Metaphors help you boil down the complications and ambiguities of your too-long life into a picture book. They help you lie to yourself

These ancient ambiguities would be a field for learned conjecture merely, were it not for the bitter rivalries that haunted them in later times and haunt them still.

As quite distinct from Jewish interpretation, the history of modern evangelical interpretation exhibits a strong degree of discomfort with the tensions and ambiguities of Scripture.