Quotes about Insight

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

When God opens our eyes for his word, we see into a world of miracles.

Insight, knowledge, truth without love is nothing—it is not even truth, for truth is God, and God is love. So truth without love is a lie; it is nothing. "Speaking the truth in love," says Paul in another letter [Eph. 4:15]. Truth just for oneself, truth spoken in enmity and hate is not truth but a lie, for truth brings us into God's presence, and God is love. Truth is either the clarity of love, or it is nothing.