Quotes About Understanding

Prayer is surrender to the reality that there is wisdom greater than ours. Prayer confronts us with the fact that we are not as smart as we tend to think we are. It reminds us that there is so much we don't know or understand. It tells us that life is not found in our limited understanding, but in surrendering our lives to the care of the One whose understanding spans from before origin to beyond destiny and includes everything in between.

Theology without love is simply very bad theology.

una buena exégesis de las Escrituras conduce a una exégesis correcta de la vida de la persona.

Here it is: a marriage of love, unity, and understanding is not rooted in romance; it is rooted in worship.

There is nothing more important to consistent, faithful, patient, loving, and effective parenting than to understand what God has given you in the grace of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

from birth we are all philosophers, we are all theologians, and we all function like archeologists, digging through the mound of our existence to make sense of it all.

Here's what you need to understand: your faith is not your hope; his zealous grace is the only source of hope for fickle-faith sinners.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship.

The minute your functional theology tells you that God is not good, it's very hard to hold on to the confessional theology that declares he is.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

you and I need to be open and approachable in the midst of our discouragement. We'll never get the help we need if we first demand that people sign on to our view of things before we are willing to open up to them and listen to what they have to say to us.

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent.

Knowledge is an accurate understanding of truth. Wisdom is understanding and living in light of how that truth applies to the situations and relationships of your daily life. Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

First, God is not shocked or surprised that you are discouraged

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows.

Here is suffering's paradox: the very things we would do anything to avoid, the very things that confront our understanding of who we are, and the very things that cause us the most pain become the very things that usher into our lives the blessings of the help, hope, peace, and rest that we all long to experience.

Peace is found in trusting the person who controls all the things that you don't understand and who knows no mystery because he has planned it all.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows. He loves you and rules what you don't understand with your good in mind.

You see, you and I only ever really understand the painful trials of this moment when we look at them through the lens of eternity.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.