Quotes About Understanding

Without the undergirding of love, the possessor of any conviction becomes obnoxious, and the dogma believed becomes repulsive to the one who disagrees with it.

PreÈ›ul pl?tit determin? câÈ™tigul obÈ›inut. ÎnÈ›elegem ce este dragostea doar când ne dedic?m ei.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must take precedence over what I prefer. Your marriage, as your conversion, begins at the Cross.

In diminishing the other we devalue ourselves. Respect and dignity are an intrinsic part of valued relationships.

Worship that is properly understood and properly given is co-extensive with life… It informs all of life, everything we do and everything we say and think. At its core it is the sense and service of God. Worship brings into confluence all the questions and answers that we have and do not have.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

Isn't love the only thing that counts?

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. No earthly relationship with an infinite, transcendent God can exist without maintaining these two aspects.

True faith depends not only on God's power but also on His wisdom.

El amor de Dios nos muestra que solo él puede ser el puente que una esa separación entre él y nosotros para que podamos ver este mundo a través del Calvario. Si no lo entiendes de esta manera, nunca lo harás, y todos los hilos de la obra maestra que él está tejiendo en tu vida se deshilacharán del diseño.

Worship is ultimately "seeing life God's way.

Faith is not bereft of reason. F

they have ears, but cannot hear

Life requires some understanding, and the struggles we face need explanatory power. It is when we get the two subjects and their reasons for existence mixed up that we end up with verbal attacks and needless hostility.

La fe que la Biblia enseña no se opone a la razón.

It took years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too.

We have lost the shared meanings of pain, and so the shared meanings of victory become occasions for jealousy.

May I suggest that the challenge of Jesus' earthly ministry was to enable us to see the message so that the picture could be understood.

Por tanto, la alabanza teje un tapiz denso y cuando es bien entendida, llena nuestra vida con la maravilla de Dios.

RecunoÈ™tinÈ›a copleÈ™eÈ™te inima atunci când darul este înÈ›eles, È™i sentimentul miracolului copleÈ™eÈ™te sufletul atunci când recunoÈ™tinÈ›a este pe deplin exprimat?.

It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.

Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth.

God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling.

if you are reading this and you really believe that you're perfect, there's only one solution to that predicament: you need to get married. If you are married, then you need to start listening!