Quotes about Understanding

God gave us minds and he means for us to use them. We need to know God better, so we won't be trying to trust a stranger when the lights go out and we're in a spiritual free-fall.

Women in the Bible are wise teachers. They offer up a boatload of profound theology intended to enrich the whole church's understanding of who God is, what it means to walk with him, and how we are to build his kingdom in this broken world.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Once become satisfied that a man loves you, and you will listen gladly to anything he has to say.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.