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“When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.”

Want Ends Beautiful Turns Force Voice Fronts Fit Holy Sticks Committed Complicated Lists Tone Creeds Diverse Bullets Preference Simplify Loaded Adjectives Manifestos Cacophony

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.”

People Ifs Humans Ideas Enough Law Turns Evil Clear Modern Human Nature Opposites Ultimate Complicated Uncertainty Cooperation

Book:The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”

Life Life Is Turns Games Chance Air Skills Complicated Devices Defeated Liable Descent Thistles

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.”

People Thinking Knows Used Turns Moral Transformation Chaos Simplicity Complicated All Time Massive Elegant Rapids Archetype Times Are Changing

Book:Tales from Earthsea

Source: Tales from Earthsea

“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”

Thinking Men Trying Heart Use Problem Turns Enemy Danger Weak Simplicity Complicated Solve Heroic Adversaries Captured Fleeing Shattering Imposter Artillery Weak Man Prowling

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.”

World Humans Mean Whole Turns Design Fit Activity Tools Tasks Complexes Complicated Complexity Frustration Enjoyable

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.”

Firsts Turns Brain Judgment Complicated Surrender Agents Clients Turn Off Planners Coma

Book:Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy