Quotes About Clarity

William Makepeace Thackeray

God was in the details.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Oh my god you're thicker than you look

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

I don't have that addictive, "What's going on?" feeling anymore, thank god.

I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

Eternal purpose can be viewed only through the light of God

No one knows the Truth, but those who have the Truth

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

It is better to consult God's instruction than seek your own ways.