Quotes About Understanding

Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.

The child who feels your respect during silences is nourished more than the child who is constantly fussed and chattered over.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

Men who were frightened to read the entire Koran because they knew they would be confronted with the words of a prophet who would never condone their actions.

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

there is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

Religious experiences are meaningless unless they are accompanied by verbal communication that carry intelligible content.

God is infinite and we are finite; therefore, we can never know everything about God. But just because we cannot know everything about God does not mean that we cannot know anything about him, and to know him in an accurate and definite manner.

spiritual infants are not able to "distinguish good from evil," and as we have observed, these are identified by the fact that they are still feeding on spiritual milk, or "elementary truths.

If a person understands what the Bible says, and if he does not impose his own stupid assumptions upon it, then the Bible will never appear contradictory to him. He will never see even one apparent contradiction in the Bible. This is because the Bible never contradicts itself.

A man's steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way? (Proverbs 20:24)

It would be wise for Christians to invest their time, energy, and money in pursuit of theological knowledge.

No one can cheat him; no one can outsmart him. Rhetoric has no effect on him; false compassion cannot confuse him. He is one who searches hearts and minds, and he knows your infidelity.

Scripture exceeds what men could produce without divine inspiration, but it is not beyond the ability of men to understand.

Each parable contains one main idea. Once we have discovered it, it should govern our interpretation and application of the parable.

No one is wise, and no one has true knowledge without first having the fear of the Lord.

God has made a point of preventing non-Christians from knowing him through their own wisdom.

The doctrine of divine sovereignty is only a major aspect of a proper understanding and definition of God. And as such, it has a dividing and distinguishing effect.

A person who does not understand biblical soteriology cannot help but have a warped sense of reality and an unsuccessful Christian life.

An understanding of divine holiness should move us to fear God. He is inherently worthy of extreme reverence, and it is a serious sin to deny him of proper worship:

Faith in the gospel in no way comes from the person himself – the understanding is sovereignly granted by God as he removes the blindness from the mind and enlightens it, and the willful assent is produced in him by God's power, as a gift that he gives only to those whom he has chosen.

The Bible teaches that God has revealed himself through the words of Scripture. Nothing more is needed to settle the issue. It establishes that God is knowable and that human language is sufficient. God is able to tell us about himself, and we are able to understand what he tells us.