Quotes About Understanding

Forgiveness isn't an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

It is impossible to grasp the fullness of God without grasping the fullness of the love of Christ.

it is clear the opposite of trusting God is leaning on our own understanding—trying to figure out things all on our own. And the evidence of whether or not I'm trusting Him is shown by where I place my focus. After all, we steer where we stare.

And in that you will find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears for not seeing yours.

remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response

There is no magic formula for being able to discern God's voice. We can learn to recognize it the way we recognize the voices of those close to us: by knowing Him. And when we know Him, we can tell if what we're feeling led to do is from Him or not.

1 Samuel 25:25

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see. Bob

If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.

I shift my focus from trying to fix the other person and the situation to allowing God to reveal some tender truths to me.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.

Dear Lord, even though I don't always understand Your ways, I can find joy in Your protection, Your provision, and Your process. I depend on Your strength to help me today. In Jesus' name. Amen.

But this tacit understanding (admitting it to exist) cannot at all justify the conclusion drawn from it. A tacit understanding between A, B, and C, that they will, by ballot, depute D as their agent, to deprive me of my property, liberty, or life, cannot at all authorize D to do so. He is none the less a robber, tyrant, and murderer, because he claims to act as their agent, than he would be if he avowedly acted on his own responsibility alone.

Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light -- every eye looking on finds its own.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

Fear diminishes when learning is the focus.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.