Quotes about Comprehension
Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
- Myles Munroe
All of mankind's problems are a result of one major dilemma. What's this dilemma? Possession without comprehension; assignment without instruction; resources without knowledge; having everything but not knowing why. Essentially, the dilemma is that we lack understanding. Without understanding, life is an experiment, and frustration is the reward.
- Myles Munroe
You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.
- Nancy Pearcey
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To know is not less than to feel.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.
- Parker Palmer
I have come to think, as have so many others in the course of history, that the goal of Christian faith is the experience of God, not the comprehension of God.
- Peter Enns
That Jesus was not and could not have been understood by walking with Jesus in and around Galilee. The disciples themselves—those Jesus handpicked to carry on his work—were utterly clueless about the big picture.
- Peter Enns
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Deuteronomy 32:29
“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”
- Judges 13:18
And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.
- 1 Kings 10:3
And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain.
- 2 Chronicles 9:2