Quotes About Understanding

We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way.

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.