Quotes About Understanding

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Please hear what I'm not saying

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?

Progressive revelation views the Bible not as a textbook on theology but as the continually unfolding revelation of God given by various means throughout the successive ages.

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Now you can understand what Jesus meant in John 17:11 when He stood before the disciples and prayed, ''I'm no more in this world." He was calling those things that be not as though they were. He was also calling His citizenship in heaven. Thank God, our citizenship is not of this world.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. [Charlie Chaplin to Albert Einstein]