Quotes about Understanding

If it is a choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

The language that reveals also obscures.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

Reason is necessarily presupposed in every revelation. Rev. is the communication of truth to the mind. But the communication of truth supposes the capacity to receive it.

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

Science is more than knowledge. Knowledge is the persuasion of what is true on adequate evidence.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. "To be known.

The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of somebody's backyard. Never in all my scientific reading did I encounter anything that talked about a broken heart. Never did I read anything about what the heart felt, how it felt or why it felt. Feeling and knowing weren't important, only understanding

Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known.