Quotes about Insight
What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.
— John Piper
Deaf people can be the sharpest hearers and blind people can be the sharpest see-ers. It's not physical. Dullness of hearing, you remember from 6:12 and 3:18, is the failure to make use of the Word heard to nurture faith and bear the fruit of obedience.
— John Piper
God's gift of understanding is through thinking, not instead of thinking.
— John Piper
What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.
— John Piper
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
— John Polkinghorne
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
— John Quincy Adams
The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.
— John Tillotson
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
— John Wesley
Let the student take one verse and concentrate his mind on ascertaining the thought that God has put into that verse for him, and then dwell upon the thought until it becomes his own. One passage thus studied until its significance becomes clear is of more value than the perusal of many chapters with no definite purpose in view and no positive instruction gained.
— Ellen White
Before men can be truly wise, they must realize their dependence upon God, and be filled with His wisdom.
— Ellen White
Why should the illiterate man have this power, which the learned man has not? The illiterate one, through faith in Christ, has come into the atmosphere of pure, clear truth, while the learned man has turned away from the truth.
— Ellen White
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow