Quotes about Insight

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

But in the spiritual world, degrees and vast learning don't matter. They don't necessarily prevent insight, but they can easily get in the way. God values a humble heart, and He delights to teach those who will say to Him, "Lord, I don't get it. Will You help me?

Problems—God's method of revealing himself to anyone who is interested.

You are what you are and where you are because of what's gone into your mind.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Yes, a guide can help point the way to your own sense of self and your purpose in life. No, a guide can't replace your own search. When you are in your car driving through town, signposts can tell you where each road goes, but only you can turn the steering wheel.

Your pain is the key to your healing.

Knowledge has organizing power inherent in it. It is simply enough to know, to be aware of the principles;

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.