Quotes about Understanding

Do not think that you can show your love for Christ by hating those who seem to be His enemies on earth. Suppose they really do hate Him: nevertheless He loves them, and you cannot be united with Him unless you love them too.

So much depends on our idea of God! Yet no idea of Him, however pure and perfect, is adequate to express Him as He really is. Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. We

If I am to love my brother, I must somehow enter deep into the mystery of God's love for him.

It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being "reasonable" that we become, ourselves, unreasonable.

Behind the walls of his isolation, his intelligence and his will, unimpaired, and not hampered in any essential way by the partial obstruction of some of his senses, were turned to God, and communed with God Who was with him and in him, and Who gave him, as I believe, light to understand and to make use of his suffering for his own good, and to perfect his soul.

I will give them a heart to understand that I am Yahweh, and they shall be my people and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart. —JEREMIAH 24:7

Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.

By faith we know God without seeing Him. By

We only know Him in so far as we are known by Him, and our contemplation of Him is a participation in His contemplation of Himself.

Therefore beware of the contemplative who says that theology is all straw before he has ever bothered to read any.

For if we have no real interest in praising Him, it shows that we have never realized who He is.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.