Quotes about Understanding

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.