Quotes about Clarity

Less is only more where more is no good.

it is better to live naked in truth than clothed in fantasy.

Shakespeare described love as an "ever-fixed mark." In a healthy family, you know how love is defined: It's clear, has boundaries, and is attainable. Unfortunately, in a shame-bound family, love is a moving target; one day it's this and one day it's that, and just when you're sure you've got it figured out, you discover you don't.

I hear with growing clarity, it's that God is calling each and every Christian to personally participate in the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.

He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.

it became increasingly clear to me that I know quite well the difference between darkness and light but do not always have the courage to name them by their true names.

Jesus, of course, had this capacity to see truly. For example, Saint John tells us, Jesus did not want to entrust himself to them because he knew what was in every heart (John 2:24). Such intuitive and perceptive knowledge is the nature of discernment.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.