Quotes About Understanding

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Emotional support is yet another facet of commitment, revealed by behavior such as being available in times of trouble and listening to the partner's problems.

To maximize the chances of preserving a long-term bond, couples would do well to remain faithful; produce children together; secure ample economic resources; act kind, generous, and understanding; and attend to their mate's sexual and emotional desires. These actions do not guarantee a successful relationship, but they increase the odds substantially.

Men need to understand the sexual over-perception bias that afflicts their mating minds. They should know that, most of the time, the women smiling at them are merely being friendly or polite, not signaling sexual interest.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

He not only wanted to talk; he half-believed that, if he talked to his dog as a person, in time London would come to understand. It's the way a child learns the language. All sorts of things are said to a baby; and all at once he knows what is being told him.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

God only speaks to those who understand the language

A comprehended god is no god.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?