Quotes About Understanding

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men but is a gift from God.

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?

It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

Are we eager to know the ways of God?

Whoever gains good understanding, keeps God's commandment.

The greatest KNOWLEDGE is the knowledge of GOD.

This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] 'effect'. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God's head (blamed God).

Eternal purpose can be viewed only through the light of God

When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Anyone who doesn't fear God, has no idea at all about Him.

You can't just know about God. You have to KNOW God!

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.