Quotes about Understanding

The truth of the faith does not stand and fall with our defense of it.

With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.

apologetics is pre-evangelism in that it addresses those who do not realize they are in a bad situation, and therefore do not see the gospel as the good news that it is.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.