Quotes About Understanding

I think about reading the poem to her, but some things are just too true to ever say out loud.

Forget about Victoria's Secret. Here's God's secret: The only way to satisfy your wife is by creating spiritual oneness.

In order to have faith, you have to know the truth and you have to respond to it. Even having a lot of faith doesn't help you if your faith isn't connected to the truth. Faith is only as valuable as the thing it's connected to.

Kingdom women obey God's Word even when it seems to make no sense. Keep in mind that faith doesn't always make sense. But it does make miracles.

She is a mirror reflecting to you the impact and influence that you, or other males, have had on her.

Los problemas que surgen en nuestra vida de oración se deben a que muy pocos de nosotros comprendemos realmente cuáles son nuestros derechos espirituales.

When we overcome emotional strongholds, we let go of our need to understand everything right now. We trust God to make a miracle out of what looks like a mess.

One of the rules for understanding the Bible is called "the law of first mention." This means that if you want to know what God says about something, study the first time He brings it up.

El fundamento de la oración del reino es saber lo que Dios ya ha dicho.

Satanás quiere que te olvides de esto. No quiere que entiendas el poder y la autoridad que posees en la oración. Quiere que continúes creyendo que el problema es tu cónyuge, tu jefe, tu amigo, esa bebida, ese medicamento o esa emoción, o incluso tú mismo. Sin embargo, ninguna de esas cosas es la raíz causante. Todas son manifestaciones del problema: una batalla espiritual.

Faith is directly tied to an action done in response to a revealed truth.

All evil begins with this belief: that another's existence is less precious than mine.

The only way to know God, the only way to know the other, is to listen. Listening is reaching out into that unknown other self, surmounting your walls and theirs; listening is the beginning of understanding, the first exercise of love. None of us listen enough, do we, dear? We only listen to a fraction of what people say. It's a wonderfully useful thing to do. You almost always hear something you didn't expect.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.

History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect,' the English historian C.V. Wedgwood observed. 'We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

For [Beth] Davis, Fitzgerald's [Louisiana] story carried another, broader message for Americans. 'If veterans could come together so soon after the War and forgive and forget, then surely we can overcome our differences,' she said. 'Old wounds were healed here, old barriers overcome. Seems like we should be able to do the same.

in the arena of economic policy, the citizens of today's democracies have learned altogether too much modesty. We have been advised that these are matters for experts: that economics and its policy implications are far beyond the understanding of the common man or woman—a point of view enforced by the increasingly arcane and mathematical language of the discipline.

This sort of faith was widespread in Kohout's generation. As Milosz would observe, Communism operated on the principle that writers need not think, they need only understand. And even understanding required little more than commitment, which was precisely what young intellectuals in the region were looking for.

History is not written as it was experienced, nor should it be. The inhabitants of the past know better than we do what it was like to live there, but they were not well placed, most of them, to understand what was happening to them and why.

No basta, a fin de cuentas, con «matar al padre»: también es preciso comprenderlo. De lo contrario, en el peor de los casos, uno se arriesga a repetir sus mismos errores. Salvo

And she envied Caleb's knowledge. She only had bits and pieces, scraps and rags. He had a whole cloth.

Don't let just any man have your grace.' Patience was spinning flax. 'Mariah, you keep yourself for a good man.' Mariah could hear the wheel rattle and whirl, rattle and whirl. 'A good man. Like your pa. On top of him being good, he needs to be a true love.' 'How to know a true love?' 'When you get beyond the moonstruck stage and you hit a rough patch, but you can't stay mad at him for long.

Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.