Quotes about Understanding
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
- RC Sproul
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
- Evelyn Underhill
We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
- Mother Teresa
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
- Charles Spurgeon
Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
- AB Simpson
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.
- NT Wright
When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.
- Lysa TerKeurst
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God's idea of God, and God's idea of God is Christ.
- E Stanley Jones
I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.
- AW Tozer
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
- CS Lewis
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
- John Calvin