Quotes About Understanding

Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more than did your child.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

the tacit tradition of making small talk with your neighbors springs from the desire to establish commonality, even if you're talking about something as generic as the weather, or how the local sports team did last night. Small talk also has the secondary effect of defusing conflict or even resentment.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology—the entire Christian life, even—depends upon the true understanding of the law and the gospel.

it has been and always will be my desire not to attack even those whom public repute disgraces. I am not delighted at the faults of any man, since I am very conscious myself of the great beam in my own eye, nor can I be the first to cast a stone at the adulteress.

your thoughts concerning God are too human.

To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.

For "no one has ascended into heaven but He who descended" (John 3:13), that is, no one arrives at the understanding of divinity but he who has first been humbled and who has come down to an understanding of himself, for there he discovers the understanding of God at the same time.

For it is human to avoid or hate because of some error what you do not understand or regard as true; but to persecute manifest and acknowledged truth — this is altogether satanical.

For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.

La realidad de la situación del hombre —su efectiva carencia de libertad— le está oculta a éste mientras no conozca a Aquel en quien llega a entender y captar simultáneamente su propia realidad y la de Dios, su perdida condición y la misericordia divina, esas dos realidades que el hombre sólo puede comprender en uno y el mismo momento —o nunca.

Holy Ghost goes first and before in what pertains to teaching; but in what concerns hearing, the Word goes first and before, and then the Holy Ghost follows after. For we must first hear the Word, and then afterwards the Holy Ghost 'works in our hearts; he works in the hearts of whom he will, and how he will, but never without the Word.

And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?

Some indeed have invented outrageous lies about the Turks in order to stir up us Germans against them, but there is no need for lies; the truth is all too great.

For all our life should be baptism, and the fulfilling of the sign, or sacrament, of baptism; we have been set free from all else and wholly given over to baptism alone, that is, to death and resurrection. This glorious liberty of ours, and this understanding of baptism have been carried captive in our day

Reason fails to understand this, "for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." (I Cor. 2:14.) It therefore seeks righteousness in externals. However, we learn from the Word of God that there is nothing under the sun that can make us righteous before God and a new creature except Christ Jesus.