Quotes About Understanding

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

If you understand, it is not God.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

Your God is too Small

Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, "I know how you feel."

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.