Quotes about Clarity

The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves.

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

Try your best to develop an ability to let others look into your head and heart. Learn to make your thoughts, your ideas, clear to others, individually, in groups, in public. You will find, as you improve in your effort to do this, that you—your real self—are making an impression, an impact, on people such as you never made before.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack

What ever satisfies the soul is truth.

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

The language that reveals also obscures.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

Romanists argue that such is the obscurity of the Scriptures, that not only the people, but the Church itself needs the aid of tradition in order to their being properly understood. But if the Bible, a comparatively plain book, in one probable volume, needs to be thus explained, what is to explain the hundreds of folios in which these traditions are recorded? Surely a guide to the interpretation of the latter must be far more needed than for the Scriptures.

To define, however, is simply to bound, to separate, or distinguish; so that the thing defined may be discriminated from all other things.