Quotes about Explanation

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--

Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure.

what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.