Quotes About Understanding

What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough.... IF you understand God's grace

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God's idea of God, and God's idea of God is Christ

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.