Quotes About Insight

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

If we really knew what God had for us, we would pray more.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

God warns before he wounds.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.