Quotes about Insight

A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view, the room in which I write has no door. I turn around. Now I see the door, but the room has no window. I look up. From this point of view, the room has no floor. I look down; it has no ceiling. By avoiding particular points of view we are able to have an intuition of the whole. The ideal for a Christian is to become holy, a word which derives from "whole.

Obedience unlocks understanding.

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.