Quotes About Clarity

Often we are so burdened and overwhelmed with other thoughts, images, and concerns that it may take a long time before God's Word has cleared all that away and gets through to us.

Insight, knowledge, truth without love is nothing—it is not even truth, for truth is God, and God is love. So truth without love is a lie; it is nothing. "Speaking the truth in love," says Paul in another letter [Eph. 4:15]. Truth just for oneself, truth spoken in enmity and hate is not truth but a lie, for truth brings us into God's presence, and God is love. Truth is either the clarity of love, or it is nothing.

The more our life is permeated by God, the simpler it becomes. This simplicity is defined by the inward unity which our life assumes because we no longer seek for any but one end: God. No

Al igual que las nubes que se forman en el cielo permanecen cierto tiempo en él y luego se disuelven en el vacío del espacio, los pensamientos ilusorios surgen, duran un momento y después se desvanecen en la vacuidad de la mente. De hecho no ha pasado realmente nada.

When ignorance disappears, so too does the distiction between self and others.

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

God's will isn't always written in the sky, but it is clearly written in His Word.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Jelkes came to the conclusion that Mona knew exactly what she was doing, and that it was not the slightest use to speak to her.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.

Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough - you have to know how.

So then I whispered, 'What is this thing, Lord?' and I began to cry; the tears went like rain goes down on the world without touching the face of Heaven. Suddenly I realized that it was the first time in my life my tears were strange to me because they just went straight forward out of my eyes;

Now be still, now that you know what the world is about, knowing it's about nothing.

One must speak the truth about the past or not at all.

Hadži?: Gospodine generale, te ?injenice zna i Vrhovna Komanda. A sa brega se dalje vidi, stara je mudrost. General Miši?: Ali pod uslovom da oni na vrhu brega nisu slepi, da imaju bolje o?i od onih što su na strani ili u podnožju. A ja u mnogim prilikama sumnjam u vidovitost onih što gledaju s vrha brega. Ako su im oblaci bliži, ljudi su im manji.

If it's doubtful, it's dirty.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.