Quotes about Clarity

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse

Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.

For me, at least, guidance only becomes evident when I look backward, months and years later. Then the circuitous process falls into place and the hand of God seems clear. But at the moment of decision I feel mainly confusion and uncertainty. Indeed, almost all the guidance in my life has been subtle and indirect.

In the end, only the truth will survive.