Quotes about Clarity

Therefore I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits. - You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

He uses the difficult seasons in our relationships to allow us to see what we typically live for besides him.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

She heard it as though it were what language was made for

Unless the word of God enlighten men's path, the whole of their life is enveloped in darkness and obscurity, so that they cannot do anything else than miserably wander from the right way.

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.