Quotes About Clarity

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter. Focus on what truly makes you happy.

Erwachsene! Was für ein trauriger Haufen. Verstehen nichts. Kein Wunder, dass es auf der Welt die ganze Zeit drunter und drüber geht.

By day we may deal with the airy superstructure of our emotions, but, at three in the morning, we get down to the foundation. At night the soul claims the right to stand face to face with itself, as before some mirror placed in a pitiless light and, with unsparing eyes, seek the truth.

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-formed. The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together. The one isn't just a headtrip; the other isn't just emotion.

believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The purpose of an open mind, [Chesterton] said, is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.

We sometimes have the impression that the coronavirus is providing people with a megaphone with which to say, more loudly, what they were wanting to say anyway.

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.

so far as I can tell, most people simply don't know what orthodox Christian belief is.

Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

The pacification of all cognitive grasping and the pacification of conceptual proliferation are peace.

17. Error does not develop In one who is in error. Error does not develop In one who is not in error. 18. Error does not develop In one in whom error is arising. In whom does error develop? Examine this on your own!

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness.

Thick lashes lifted, a moment of pure clarity in the dark gray as Noah wrapped his arm around her waist. "Meant to ask you to marry me, put the ring in the plant soil, but gardener made me drunk. He's so small. What happened?"

Assumptions are the enemy of coherence," Sharine said. In other words, You're an idiot.

Assumptions are the enemy of coherence

Pain is the best indicator of whether something is an illusion or reality." -Kaleb

[T]he Truth lies in a bowl of tea.