Quotes about Explanation
theology, and as such, He provides the only example worth following. I will not lower the standard of Scripture to fit my experience. Instead, I work to raise my level of experience to the standard of Scripture. I refuse to create another standard to give any explanation for my lack.
— Bill Johnson
Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do.
— Bill Johnson
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.
— Bill Johnson
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
— GK Chesterton
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
— Wendell Berry
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
— Beth Moore
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
— Milan Kundera
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
— Oscar Wilde
Being is the great explainer.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Tony Campolo
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.
— Stephen Hawking