Quotes about Clarity

Confusion is the chief cause of worry.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

Commitment is not sustained by confusion but by insight. The person who is uninformed or confused will inevitably be unstable and vulnerable in action, thought and feeling.

"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

The theologian William E. Hull, worrying over the destructive animosities that divide religious organizations, asked, "How can we avoid the wrangling that breeds hostility?" And he answered: "By seeking clarity rather than victory" (Beyond the Barriers, p. 169).

Teaching as a purpose, as such, is difficult to prescribe or talk about because the thing it is proposing to make is usually something so vague as "understanding.

Death is a sort of lens, thought I used to think of it as a wall or shut door. It changes things and makes them clear.