Quotes about Understanding

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Mind thine own concerns. If he believes not as thou believest, it is a proof that thou believest not as he believes, and there is no earthly power can determine between you.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!

love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.