Quotes about Understanding
I prefer to heed the wise words of Booker T. Washington: I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
— Jurgen Moltmann
But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?
— Karl Barth
When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.
— Karl Barth
I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
— Jim Elliot
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
— John Newton
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
— Marcus Aurelius
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
— Martin Luther
Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.
— Pope Francis
God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
— RC Sproul Jr.
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson