Quotes about Understanding

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his fmight, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; 24But glet him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, 10judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand! There is no point at which you can say, "I've got it." Always and forever, mystery gets you!

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.

We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Francis's starting place was human suffering instead of human sinfulness