Quotes about Understanding

The "Nature Psalms" ... This understanding, and seeing, and hearing, is possible only ... in the enlightening of the eyes by the salvation of God ... But this seeing and hearing is not a projection of the believing subject, but an actual finding and seeing, and hearing! Here nothing is 'read into', but is only an understanding of the reality of revelation.

The true nature of good works cannot be understood apart from Christ who is our 'sanctification' (1 Corinthians 1:30).

We must warn against an incorrect conception of theology, a conception which considers it possible to discuss Holy Scripture apart from a personal relationship of belief in it, as though that alone would constitute true 'objectivity'.

So that the one work of the Spirit of God is to teach things concerning Christ, and to bring to remembrance and understanding the words which fell from His lips.

Let us always confess when we cannot understand His methods that it is because we are finite, and He is infinite.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

The perspective of Thomas' confession - 'My Lord and God' - must prevail through all our thinking and all our reinterpretations ... All reinterpretation should be tested by whether it can participate in this confession.