Quotes about Understanding
If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.
— Thomas Watson
We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.
— Thomas Watson
There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Focus on people and the needs they have.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.'
— Og Mandino
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
— Og Mandino
No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.
— Og Mandino
Do all things with love.
— Og Mandino
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time. It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.
— Oprah Winfrey
Love is a lesson worth learning.
— Oprah Winfrey