Quotes about Understanding

Our humanity will not by itself prevent us from knowing and interacting with God just as they did.

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

In particular, I had learned that intensity is crucial for any progress in spiritual perception and understanding. To dribble a few verses or chapters of scripture on oneself through the week, in church or out, will not reorder one's mind and spirit—just as one drop of water every five minutes will not get you a shower, no matter how long you keep it up. You need a lot of water at once and for a sufficiently long time. Similarly for the written Word.

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

Seek not to speak, but that you might have something to say.

"Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

We can fail to know because we do not want to know - because what would be known would require us to believe and act in ways contrary to what we want.

Tolerance is not indifference, but a generous regard and even provision for those who differ from us on points we deeply care about.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

Knowledge is the basis of belief, and, when it is, it gives the belief a very different bearing upon life.

It may seem strange but doing the will of God is a different matter than just doing what God wants us to do. The two are so far removed, in fact, that we can be solidly in the will of God, and know that we are, without knowing God's preference with regard to various details of our lives.

We bring the reality of God into our lives by making contact with him through our minds, and our actions are based on the understanding that results from the fullness of that contact. There is nothing mysterious here. This is why the mind, and what we turn our minds to, is the key to our lives.