Quotes about Understanding

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

They will understand a familiar speech, who hear a sermon as if it were nonsense, and they have far greater help for the application of it to themselves. And withal you will hear their objections, and know where it is that Satan hath most advantage over them, and what it is that stands up against the truth; and so may be able to shew them their errors, confute their objections, and more effectually convince them.

Truth loves the light and is most beautiful when it is most naked. If you would not teach men, why are you in the pulpit? If you would teach men, why do you not speak so as to be understood?

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied.

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).