Quotes about Understanding

We tend to think of God as being like us.

A lot of Christians are doing that for God today. Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.

But even here we must be careful that we are not seeking to satisfy our souls by finding some spiritual "good" in the adversity. Rather we must trust God that He is working in the experience for our good, even when we see no beneficial results. We must learn to trust God when He doesn't tell us why, when we don't understand what He is doing.

There is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Never look down on anyone unless you're helping him up

Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up.