Quotes About Understanding

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

We must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.