Quotes About Understanding

In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

Those things most listened for, certainly those are the things least said.

Books are not men—

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God, No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God, and about death. I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least...

Words! book-words! what are you?

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Develop convictions from your understanding of revelation, but take them no further; do not make absolute what the Bible dos not make absolute.

God meets you where you are, not where you ought to be. When you manifest a heart to seek Him, your sin and error do not stand in His way.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

So long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to understanding.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

The abstract thinking of the world is never to be expected of persons in high places...

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

This is a very simple Rule, but one to which there should be no exception — never to go beyond your own experience.

paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

1. The first partner in the meeting is the text.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.