Quotes About Understanding

Hafiz the poet said, "O thou who are trying to learn the marvel of love from the copybook of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

You learn it all, and then you offer it all up.

He had no idea what a Ram Dass was, but he was open to learning.

Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.

The wise never harbor hostility. The good man forgets the faults of others; the best man forgives them, even when he himself has borne their brunt. In the purity of his heart, the virtuous man only sees the virtue in everyone else.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." God's thoughts are indeed higher than ours, but when he reduces his thoughts into words and reveals them in Scripture, he expects us to study them, meditate on them, and understand them—again, not exhaustively, but accurately.

I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.

Shallow books make shallow men.)

Charles Spurgeon's answer was to recognize that whatever God's Word teaches is true, whether or not it all makes sense to us. He said, I

C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.

They didn't finish each other's sentences, rather it was the pauses they shared.

I think kindness if my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the other things like courage or bravery of generosity or anything else. Kindness—that simple word. To be kind, it covers everything to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

Any striving for understanding that we do is likely to hold back the darkness.

how we think we know what we think we know.

there are no absolute rights or wrongs; rather, there is less understanding and more understanding.

Finally, if you attempt to read this without working through a significant number of exercises (see §0.0.1), I will come to your house and pummel you with [Gr-EGA] until you beg for mercy. It is important to not just have a vague sense of what is true, but to be able to actually get your hands dirty. As Mark Kisin has said, "You can wave your hands all you want, but it still won't make you fly.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

Apologetics is not just giving answers to questions — it is questioning people's answers, and even questioning their questions. When you question someone's question, you compel him or her to open up about his or her own assumptions. Our assumptions must be examined.