Quotes About Understanding

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

God knows better than we do what we need.

If you think you understand, it isn't God.

The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind.

Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

God created woman to tame man.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.