Quotes About Understanding

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

Prayer turns theology into experience.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.