Elizabeth George Quotes

“Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.”

“Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life”

“I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.”

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.”

“Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.”

“But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.”

“Life is an interplay and display of perplexing energy.”

“True enlightenment is when you know that you’re nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy.”

“I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.”