Quotes about Understanding

Driven by petty ambition, we serve only ourselves. St. Josemaria put it well: "Those who are 'ambitious,' with small, personal, miserable ambitions, cannot understand that the friends of God should seek to achieve something through a spirit of service and without such'ambition.' " We should never confuse Christian humility and modesty with a will to underachieve.

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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

God does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.