Quotes about Understanding
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.
— John Maxwell
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
— Mark Batterson
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
— Jim Rohn
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I believe in order that I may understand.
— Anselm of Canterbury
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
— William Faulkner
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
— CS Lewis
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
— Paul Tillich
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine