Quotes about Clarity

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

What is dark within me, illumine.

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, "I've wasted it!" then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known