Quotes About Insight

“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

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ëGo to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyoneís judgment.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in Godís sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,