Quotes About Understanding

In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

“Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

ëMy people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”

“What are these, my lord?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

“Do you not know what they are?” replied the angel. “No, my lord,” I answered.

“Do you not know what these are?” he inquired. “No, my lord,” I replied.

So I inquired of the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ëWhat have we spoken against You?í

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

“Do not judge, or you will be judged.

Why do you look at the speck in your brotherís eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

At that time Johnís disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”