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Quotes About Understanding

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
~ Joel Osteen
Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.
~ Janet Lee Carey, Dragonswood
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
~ George Sand, La Petite Fadette
We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
~ Bernard Malamud
I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
~ Christopher Pike
Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
~ Coventry Patmore
We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
~ Blaise Pascal
There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.
~ Gregory David Roberts
One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons
~ Thomas a Kempis
Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.
~ Todd Burpo
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
~ Dave Sim
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
~ Dolly Parton
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
~ Flannery O'Connor
A comprehended God is no God at all!
~ Gerhard
Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.
~ Glen Hansard
There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.
~ Max Anders
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
~ Meister Eckhart
We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.
~ Oswald Chambers
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
~ Robert Breault