Quotes about Understanding

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it!

Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.

They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.

God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God .

Racial tensions are rife with pride—the pride of white supremacy, the pride of black power, the pride of intellectual analysis, the pride of anti-intellectual scorn, the pride of loud verbal attack, and the pride of despising silence, the pride that feels secure, and the pride that masks fear. Where pride holds sway, there is no hope for the kind of listening and patience and understanding and openness to correction that relationships require.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.