Quotes about Insight

To put it plainly, the life of faith is the pursuit of wisdom.

To live by faith—to live wisely—means living with an ever-increasing awareness of the hidden things, not simply a detached general knowledge that, say, "Money can be harmful," but a deep knowledge of ourselves, a true self-awareness of what money is doing to me . . . right now.

That Jesus was not and could not have been understood by walking with Jesus in and around Galilee. The disciples themselves—those Jesus handpicked to carry on his work—were utterly clueless about the big picture.

Love gives you eyes.

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

and he lifted up an oracle, saying: “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,