Quotes about Clarity

AS YOU GET OUT OF BED in the morning, be aware of My Presence with you. You may not be thinking clearly yet, but I am. Your early morning thoughts tend to be anxious ones until you get connected with Me. Invite Me into your thoughts by whispering My Name. Suddenly your day brightens and feels more user-friendly. You cannot dread a day that is vibrant with My Presence.

Talk with Me about what you are experiencing, and ask Me to show you the way forward.

A life lived close to Me is not complicated or cluttered. When your focus is on My Presence, many things that once troubled you lose their power over you.

In faith, thank Me for whatever is preoccupying your mind. This will clear the blockage so that you can find Me. P

IN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING WELL, you need to feel at peace about the many other things you could be doing but are not.

A mind that is unfocused is vulnerable to "the world, the flesh, and the devil," all of which exert a downward pull on your thoughts. As your thinking processes deteriorate, you become increasingly confused and directionless. The best remedy is to refocus your mind and heart on Me, your constant Companion.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me; it is the parts I do understand." Whoever said that may well have been thinking about Matthew 5 or even our specific passage.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.