Quotes About Understanding

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest.

But who in this day has any proper understanding of the need for scriptural proof? How often we hear innumerable arguments 'from life' and 'from experience' put forward as the basis for most crucial decisions, but

The only way to understand the Psalms is on your knees, the whole congregation praying the words of the Psalms with all its strength.

To bear the burden of the other person means involvement with the created reality of the other, to accept and affirm it, and, in bearing with it, to break through to the point where we take joy ink.

The Psalter occupies a unique place in the Holy Scriptures. It is God's Word and, with few exceptions, the prayer of men as well. How are we to understand this? How can God's Word be at the same time prayer to God?

Chúng ta c?n h?c cách Ä'ánh giá ng??i khác không ph?i thông qua cái h? làm, hay cái h? b? sót không làm, mà qua nh?ng kh? Ä'au h? Ä'ã tr?i qua

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions, for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love?

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts…

Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

You are fooling yourself if you have read the Bible from cover to cover and you do not care more for the lost and hurting and broken than you did before you read it.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are.

didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.

In our rush to presumably better ourselves we had both missed what had otherwise always been obvious—that it often didn't take much more than careful consideration of each other's needs to secure a degree of happiness.

Silence isn't the same when it's shared.