Quotes about Insight

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

"Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

White people who wished to think well of themselves did not use the language of racial insult in front of black people. But the problem for us white people, as we finally had to understand, was that we could not be selectively complicit. To be complicit at all, even thoughtlessly by custom, was to be complicit in the whole extent and reach of the injustice. It is hard for customary indifference to utstick itself from the abominations to which it tacitly consents.

And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.