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Quotes About Insight

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
~ Aldous Huxley
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
~ Erich Fromm
Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
~ Francis Bacon
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
~ Quincy Jones
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
~ Michel Quoist
I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.
~ Morgan Earp
God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
~ Dave Van Ronk
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.
~ Neil L. Andersen
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
~ Oswald Chambers
It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.
~ Paul Zindel, The Pigman
The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
~ Peter Kreeft
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
~ Richard Rohr
Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.
~ James Van Praagh
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
~ Joel Osteen
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
~ C. A. Bartol
Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.
~ David I. Rozenberg
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
~ Michael Servetus
Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower
~ PZ Myers
God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.
~ Robert Quillen
You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
~ J. I. Packer
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
~ Baruch Spinoza
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal