Quotes About Clarity

And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future.

Lucas, I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it. It's like when people say they have a funny story—like, just hurry up and tell the story and I'll decide for myself if I think it's funny or not.

When did you know you were in love?" I didn't have an answer to that question. There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like a gradual waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that I had been love.

But then maybe i don't want to know. Maybe it;s nicer not knowing.

It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

Also, it's hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.

Zu viele Gedanken machen alles kaputt - das Essen und die Liebe.

For fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, she'd suspend her fierce judgment of the world and fall silent there. And when she did, a tiny space would clear in my head and I could think again.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.

True hope has no room for delusion.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Don't look to the past in anger nor the future in fear, but around in awareness. —J

Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Anytime you don't have a picture in your head, you're in trouble or will be soon.

But the question I am pressing is how the "dagger" can continue to serve its purpose once we have seen through the fact that it is a shadowy illusion.

While the blustery Luther, with his categorical denials of any ambiguity in the Bible, stands as the champion of the humble reader, the reasoning Luther stands within the stream of creeds and scholarship that defines more soberly and narrowly the scope and nature of the Bible's clarity.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3 000 years.

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