Quotes about Clarity

God's impressions within and His Word without are always corroborated by His providence around, and we should quietly wait until these three focus into one point. … If you do not know what you ought to do, stand still until you do.

Praying with precision is key.

fervently—because fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

Fighting the low-level cloud cover that's blocking out what you're wanting to see break through into your life.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

When this happens, something "clicks" within you, and you know you have found what you were created to do. It is an instinctive, gut-level, spiritual experience. You'll know it when you see, hear and feel it.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

the leader must 1) avoid getting swamped in detail; 2) not be petty; 3) not be pompous; 4) know how to select people to fit the task; 5) trust others to do a job without the leader's meddling; 6) be capable of clear decisions; 7) inspire confidence.

Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.