Quotes about Understanding

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means; or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means. Never run before God's guidance. If there is the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—don't.

If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.