Seeking Insight Quotes

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

In this Situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find Political Truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not, hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our Understandings?

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you... Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

The question is just as important as the answer.

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something