Quotes about Understanding

If the Bible says something once, notice it but don't count it as a fundamental principle. If it says it twice, think about it twice. If it is repeated many times, then dwell on it and seek to understand it. What you want to believe from the Bible is its message on the whole and use it as a standard for interpreting the peripheral passages.

And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.

Knowledge is a friend of faith, essential to faith and to our relationship with God in the spiritual life.

First, we must learn from him the reason why we live and why we do the things we do.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Religion as actually lived, not as some figment of the academic imagination, always claims to involve knowledge of how things are.

"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.

Our humanity will not by itself prevent us from knowing and interacting with God just as they did.

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

In particular, I had learned that intensity is crucial for any progress in spiritual perception and understanding. To dribble a few verses or chapters of scripture on oneself through the week, in church or out, will not reorder one's mind and spirit—just as one drop of water every five minutes will not get you a shower, no matter how long you keep it up. You need a lot of water at once and for a sufficiently long time. Similarly for the written Word.

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

Seek not to speak, but that you might have something to say.