Quotes about Clarity

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

At the end of the day, honoring God leads to good things. Anything else leads to confusion, emotional exhaustion and a lack of good things.

In good writing, words become one with things.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Good things are not necessarily God things.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.