Quotes about Clarity

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view, the room in which I write has no door. I turn around. Now I see the door, but the room has no window. I look up. From this point of view, the room has no floor. I look down; it has no ceiling. By avoiding particular points of view we are able to have an intuition of the whole. The ideal for a Christian is to become holy, a word which derives from "whole.

Bible says, "Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what's important. You become effective by being selective.

It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.

It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on repeat, these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies if you aren't clear and focused and grounded.