Quotes about Clarity

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

We cannot discern what is truly good for our lives without first having our minds renewed.

is good enough? In these times the terms good and God are seemingly synonymous. We believe that what is generally accepted as good must be aligned with God's will. Generosity, humility, and justice are good. Selfishness, arrogance, and cruelty are evil. The distinction seems pretty straightforward. But is that all there is to it? If good is so obvious, why does Hebrews 5:14 teach that we must have discernment to recognize it?

What we don't keep in focus before us eventually fades.

words easy to be understood often hit the mark, whereas high and learned words only pierce the air.

The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.

When you know your purpose and priorities and you have ordered your day, week, or year according to them, you have a clarity of thought that strengthens everything you do.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. —DON MARQUIS

Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.

One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

Poet and novelist James Joyce said, "Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it." The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. And middle leaders are usually the busiest people in an organization.