Quotes About Understanding

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

Content is king, but context is God.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.