Quotes About Insight

Darrell L. Bock

I repeat: the pressure to apply is a modernist pressure, not a biblical pressure. William Willimon observes that most congregations love hearing preaching with this application emphasis. The only problem, he says, is that such preaching is not biblical preaching. The 'subtext' of so much of this must-apply preaching is, 'You are gods unto yourselves. Through this insight, this set of principles, this well applied idea, you can save yourselves by yourselves'.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

What would it take to interpret the present time? A discerning heart and the ability to see the bigger picture outside of ourselves.

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've thought of that'

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!

not all your brain goes to sleep when you do. It leaves a night watch on duty, and often the night watch can find answers that your waking brain missed.

La sagesse procurait rarement des réponses, elle se contentait de redéfinir les questions.

Aren't you frightened?" "No." The sailor pondered for a moment and then added, "If I warn't just a dumb jotunn I might be, I s'pose." This sudden insight seemed to worry him more than the dragons themselves.

La vérité est comme un joyau taillé, monsieur Smith. Elle a des millions de facettes. Si je t'en montre une, tu seras satisfait, mais n'oublie pas qu'il en existe bien d'autres. —

Faith was praiseworthy, but should be seasoned with intelligence.

Strange how what one saw depended on how one looked.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

You will likely hear participants say such things as, "So that's what you did?" "Oh, I forgot about that." "So, when you did that, that's when I did this. Now it makes sense." Like a jigsaw puzzle that had been scattered with pieces missing, it all begins to come together as everyone adds their one or two pieces.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right questions.

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

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He didn't seem out of breath in the slightest. 'I had this flash of insight into how I could modify the iterations of the immediate probability space. It's like that game children play where they set up a complicated arrangement of. . . ' He frowned. 'You know, those little plaques with spots on them that you play a game with. Just don't expect me to be able to do it on demand. Or ever again, it seems. Oh, well.' Behind

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

America sure was a funny place to look at when you got far enough away,