Quotes about Insight

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Mo Ostin was a great money-maker, but he had the aesthetic interest of a fire plug.

I know who the great poets are.

Power," said Henry Adams, "is poison"; and it is a poison which blinds the eyes of moral insight and lames the will of moral purpose. The

O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).

Brethren, experience will teach you that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, unwearied labors, and experience.

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

We become what we are willing to see.

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE FIRST

In Paul's story we find the archetypal spiritual pattern, wherein people move from what they thought they always knew to what they now fully recognize. The pattern reveals itself earlier in the Torah when Jacob "wakes from his sleep" on the rock at Bethel and says, in effect, "I found it, but it was here all the time! This is the very gate of heaven" (Genesis 28:16—17).