Quotes about Understanding

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

Do you think one can only care once?' she asked. 'Or never. Most women never care, never begin to. They don't know what it means. Nor men either. But when I see a woman as cares, my heart stands still for her.

She's had no love. No! - Well, you must make up to her.

I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right.

The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning.