Quotes about Understanding
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
- Francis Chan
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
- Rick Warren
The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.
- J. Vernon McGee
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
- St. Jerome
God knows better than we do what we need.
- Victor Hugo
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.
- John Stott
I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.
- J. Vernon McGee
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
- Hans Kung
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
- Elizabeth George
We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.
- JI Packer
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
- RC Sproul