Quotes about Understanding

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. . . . Practice according to what knowledge you have. This will be the way to know more. .

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.

We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known

If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.

Preaching is one thing—and it is crucial. But hearing is another thing—and it is just as crucial.

It is possible to experience true divine wonders in your conversion but never to be taught a true description of what your experience is. Then someone starts to describe your experience in words you have never heard, and in ways you have never understood, and suddenly the strange words all sound exactly right.

I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

Deaf people can be the sharpest hearers and blind people can be the sharpest see-ers. It's not physical. Dullness of hearing, you remember from 6:12 and 3:18, is the failure to make use of the Word heard to nurture faith and bear the fruit of obedience.

God's gift of understanding is through thinking, not instead of thinking.