Quotes about Insight

That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.

Religion is not primarily a set of beliefs, a collection of prayers, or a series of rituals. Religion is first and foremost a way of seeing. It can't change the facts about the world we live in, but it can change the way we see those facts, and that in itself can often make a real difference.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.