Quotes about Understanding

So that the one work of the Spirit of God is to teach things concerning Christ, and to bring to remembrance and understanding the words which fell from His lips.

Let us always confess when we cannot understand His methods that it is because we are finite, and He is infinite.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

The perspective of Thomas' confession - 'My Lord and God' - must prevail through all our thinking and all our reinterpretations ... All reinterpretation should be tested by whether it can participate in this confession.

The mark of a spiritual man or woman is a listening heart, not a lecturing tongue.

Good spiritual directors understand that people have different spiritual temperaments, that what feeds one doesn't feed all. Giving the same spiritual prescription to every struggling Christian is no less irresponsible than a doctor prescribing penicillin to every patient.

You don't marry a position. You marry a person.