Quotes about Insight
Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.
- Beth Moore
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
- John Calvin
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
- Bede Griffiths
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
- St. Jerome
The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
- Julian of Norwich
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
- Andy Stanley
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.
- Henri Nouwen
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.
- Leonard Ravenhill
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
- Peter Kreeft