Quotes about Understanding
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
— CS Lewis
There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.
— Joseph Wirthlin
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
— Napoleon Hill
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
— John Calvin
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
— Philip Yancey
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
— Duke Ellington
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
— Mary Baker Eddy
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
— JD Greear