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Quotes About Understanding

I want God, not my idea of God.
~ C. S. Lewis
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
~ Charlotte Bronte
The Holy Ghost unveils God's Word to us; He reveals the things of God to us.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
~ Dallas Willard
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
~ Thomas Carlyle
God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
~ Vance Havner
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.
~ Jonathan Edwards
When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
~ Joseph Joubert
It is important that we know and hear God's voice, for the words of God reveal the will of God.
~ Larry Lea
When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.
~ Mark Batterson
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
~ Meher Baba
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
~ Michael Servetus
... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak
~ Nick Vujicic
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.
~ Robert Quillen
The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God.
~ Stefan Wyszynski
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
~ Lexa Doig
If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
~ Brother Lawrence
You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
~ J. I. Packer
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
~ Philip Yancey