Quotes About Understanding

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Innovation without insight is failure.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

You can't confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ.

I believe in order that I may understand.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.