Quotes about Understanding

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.

Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.

And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.

Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder

We will be judged by how well we love.

And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

She heard it as though it were what language was made for

The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read it