Quotes about Clarity

If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

A man without vision is a man without God.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

O Lord, all our troubles come to us because we do not have our eyes fixed on you. If only we looked at the path we're walking, we would soon arrive. But, we stumble and fall a thousand times and we stray because we do not set our eyes on the true Way.

We will find out. It will all become clear. Heaven is involved, and heaven never leaves anything in which it is involved unresolved.

Christians possess a shallow understanding of the gospel as a result of years of hearing short "gospel presentations" tacked onto the ends of sermons. Still others who know the message of Christ find themselves feeling awkward and incapable of sharing the good news clearly with family and friends. Taking steps to be sure we know the gospel with some clarity and depth, then, is necessary.