Quotes about Understanding

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

But ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

you want to know the key to end-times hatred of Israel and the Jewish people, you need to understand the core problem rests within the heart of American Evangelicalism.

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

I prayed earnestly for this Sister who had caused me so much struggle, but this was not enough for me. I tried to do everything I possibly could for her, and when tempted to answer her sharply, I hastened to give her a friendly smile and talk about something else, for, as it says in The Imitation, "It is better to leave everyone to his own way of thinking than begin an argument." (Imit., III, xliv, 1).

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

Expositional listening is listening for the meaning of a passage of Scripture and accepting that meaning as the main idea to be grasped for our personal and corporate lives as Christians.