Quotes About Clarity

Abstract words seem to be more difficult than concrete words.

Concentration is uniting the mind with one place, object, or idea for spiritual awakening.

What is truth? Truth is telling it like it really is. Truth is not a thing, but rather a relationship between our words or ideas and reality. Whether

The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions.

it's all about where your minds at

A blind horse kin see just as well from either end.

Weigh words, don't count 'em.

A drunken tongue tells what's on a sober mind.

But from the brokenness you are able to hear God with the utmost clarity, because pride and pretense have been silenced. James Emery White

You're either living on purpose or living accidentally, so live ON purpose WITH purpose!

When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

When you add the noise of the external world to all the roles you take in it, it is easy to lose sight of who you really are. To find your Element, you need to regain that perspective. One way is to create time and space to be alone with yourself, to experience who you are when no one else wants anything from you and the noise has stopped. One method is to meditate.

repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

If I say to some kids roughhousing in church, "Don't kill anyone," they know what concern I am addressing. They know I'm exaggerating for emphasis and not speaking in general terms—that I'm not, for example, commenting on the morality of military service. Stripped of the rich context we share, the mere words, "Don't kill anyone" could easily be understood to mean don't kill anyone, anytime, ever.

I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.

Words matter, words have import.

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.