Quotes about Clarity

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.

At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.

It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.

because having too many options can easily lead to being stuck, disconnected from your life because there's no pressing need to do anything.

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.