Quotes about Insight

What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Let the student take one verse and concentrate his mind on ascertaining the thought that God has put into that verse for him, and then dwell upon the thought until it becomes his own. One passage thus studied until its significance becomes clear is of more value than the perusal of many chapters with no definite purpose in view and no positive instruction gained.

Before men can be truly wise, they must realize their dependence upon God, and be filled with His wisdom.

Why should the illiterate man have this power, which the learned man has not? The illiterate one, through faith in Christ, has come into the atmosphere of pure, clear truth, while the learned man has turned away from the truth.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know.

It is a great thing to see something familiar from an unfamiliar angle for the first time, even if it is because you have been worried and lost for longer than you would have liked.