Quotes about Understanding

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows. He loves you and rules what you don't understand with your good in mind.

Yes, we all get the same mercy, but it doesn't come to all of us in the same size and shape. God knows who you are, where you are, and what you're facing, and in the majestic combination of divine knowledge, power, and compassion, he meets you with just the right mercies for the moment.

You see, you and I only ever really understand the painful trials of this moment when we look at them through the lens of eternity.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Love that cares, listens.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The wise are wise only because they love.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.