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Quotes About Understanding

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
~ Albert Camus
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
~ C. S. Lewis
God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.
~ Catherine Doherty
Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner.
~ Christopher Love
If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does.
~ Tupac Shakur
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
~ Wilkie Collins
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
~ William Wordsworth
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
~ David Platt
True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.
~ Hank Hanegraaff
Friends are God's apology for relations.
~ Hugh Kingsmill
Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?
~ Jack Nicholson
God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.
~ Joshua Harris
The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep
~ Joshua Harris
If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.
~ Krista Tippett
God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
~ Mother Teresa
He who knows about depth knows about God.
~ Paul Tillich
God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
~ Oswald Chambers
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
The world is God's language to us.
~ Simone Weil
When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.
~ Beth Moore
I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.
~ Miroslav Volf