Quotes about Understanding

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

The first step in personal revival is to get God in His rightful place. When God is recognized as being above me, beyond me, highly exalted, over me, and totally separate from me, I am getting in position for a downpour. When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place. That's what God's holiness does for us—it puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it — in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow

What can be explained can also be predicted, if one knows the initial events and the laws covering their succession.

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

In the terms in which you set it, the problem is unanswerable; but in the Kingdom of Heaven, those terms do not apply. You have asked the question in a form that is much too limited; the 'solution' must be brought in from outside your sphere of reference altogether.

We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.