Quotes about Insight

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool's eyes roam to the ends of the earth. Proverbs 17:24

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 2 Timothy 2:7

Unfortunately, human hearts seem remarkably resistant to wisdom.

Every now and then a moment of clarity hits us, and we feel known by something—Someone—of inestimable greatness.

I believe the more we "see" God at work, the more we'll believe; and the more we believe, the more we're liable to see.

We must cease to accept the visible as if it's the only possible solution and start believing what God says over what man sees.

Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures." I'm not sure original definitions get much better than the one for understand in Luke 24:45. Meditate on this definition: "The comprehending activity of the mind denoted by suniemi entails the assembling of individual facts into an organized whole, as collecting the pieces of a puzzle and putting them together. The mind grasps concepts and sees the proper relationship between them.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.