Quotes About Understanding

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

I fear you will be understood only by those who wear the helpless smile of people who have lost themselves in the dark wood

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.

Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.

To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.

No pido tolerancia porque me parece una boludez. [...] La tolerancia es el prejuicio pero más light. Pedir tolerancia es aceptar que algo estás haciendo mal.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means; or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means. Never run before God's guidance. If there is the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—don't.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can't see the way ahead.

O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself." Such a need for constant vindication destroys our soul's faith in God. Don't say, "I must explain myself," or, "I must get people to understand." Our Lord never explained anything—He left the misunderstandings or misconceptions of others to correct themselves.

God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.