Quotes about Understanding

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and with- out criticizing, and it will be given to him. James 1:5

Those that we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn't take the cross to forgive them. It could just happen over coffee...'Father I forgive them in Christ's name, for they don't understand what they did.

No other human can climb down our throats like a spelunker and hack through our trachea and try on our hearts and see how they feel. One mortal cannot fully comprehend how another operates from within.

He will teach us about His ways so we may walk in His paths. Micah 4:2

The LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you" (1 Chron. 28:9). In her bitterness she sought her Lord.

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:13

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling. Ephesians 1:18

May they be made completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me. John 17:23

Unbelief. Oh, they believed in God. Their oversight was that they simply didn't believe the God they believed in.

However high, wide, long, or deep your faith may grow through the years, always leave an ellipsis at every point of your spiritual compass. Anything attainable by human understanding is a mere shadow of the reality. Every time you grasp a new concept about God, try thinking, "He's this … and more.

Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16

Listen, my sons, to a father's discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding. Proverbs 4:1