Quotes about Understanding

We receive life by coming to Him. The life that is on a solid foundation is not just one that understands doctrine accurately, but is one that is joined to the Word Himself. It is not just knowing the Book of the Lord, but knowing the Lord of the Book. However, because He is Truth, we must love the truth and be passionately devoted to accuracy of doctrine as well.

The life that is on a solid foundation is not just one that understands doctrine accurately, but is one that is joined to the Word Himself. It is not just knowing the Book of the Lord, but knowing the Lord of the Book.

Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

Is this what you're trying to tell me?" "Is this the point you're making to me today?" "Is this what you want me to get from this conversation?" "Is this what you want me to do after we're done talking?" "Is this how I need to respond?" "Is there anything else I need to know about this?

Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer - feelings give us the reason to want to

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.