Quotes about Understanding

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

If God were a theory, the study of theology would be the way to understand Him. But God is alive and in need of love and worship. This is why thinking of God is related to our worship. In an analogy of artistic understanding, we sing to Him before we are able to understand Him. We have to love in order to know. Unless we learn how to sing, unless we know how to love, we will never learn to understand Him.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living . What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.