Quotes about Understanding

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.

Knowledge, when it is of the right kind, is the handmaid to love, for without love knowledge puffs up

Now I'm really not getting it." "That's why you should talk to my mom. We've both received Christ and—" "Received Christ? You're not gonna be like those people that go around knocking on everybody's door, are you?

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

I always tell myself... that the faith I have is a gift, so I shouldn't take that for granted. And so when people are struggling and feel they have no faith at all, I shouldn't say, 'Well, it's their fault.'

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?