Quotes about Explanation

Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do.

The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn't seen God's power and needed an explanation to justify their own powerless churches.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation." Sabbaths 1999 IV

We don't always have the explanations for certain events and acts of God. He is sovereign. He owes us no explanation. He purposes to teach us to walk by faith and not by sight. When Scripture records an event or judgment

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Being is the great explainer.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n's instead of the usual spelling? "My dad liked music," was Crake's explanation, once Jimmy got around to asking him about it, which had taken a while. "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's.