Quotes about Insight
First, we must learn from him the reason why we live and why we do the things we do.
— Dallas Willard
You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.
— Dallas Willard
"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.
— Dallas Willard
Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.
— Dallas Willard
"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.
— Dallas Willard
Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.
— Dallas Willard
Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.
— Dallas Willard
Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.
— Kyle Idleman
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
— William Wordsworth
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.
— CS Lewis
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
— Oscar Wilde