Quotes about Understanding

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.

If we are to begin to push back against this, we have to understand how meditating on God's Word is central to worldview formation.

Scripture: inputting spiritual/gospel truth.

The impetus for our mission task is to understand that everything we are—everything that happens to us and everything that we do—is to align us with the kingdom purpose for God to be exalted among the nations.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.