Quotes About Understanding

Los cristianos escuchan mucho, pero me temo que aprenden poco.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.

We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second, and third days, in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise like an husbandman?

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work.

You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.

Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Do human beings ever realize life while they live it ?-every, every minute?

Most rájött arra a titokra, melybÅ'l sohase gyógyulunk meg, hogy még a legtökéletesebb szerelemben is egyikünk kevésbé mélyen szeret, mint másikunk. Mindketten egyformán jók lehetünk, egyformán tehetségesek és szépek is; de sohase lehet két ember, aki egyformán szereti egymást.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

We all know more than we know we know.