Quotes about Understanding

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Mind thine own concerns. If he believes not as thou believest, it is a proof that thou believest not as he believes, and there is no earthly power can determine between you.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!

love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.

We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.