Quotes about Understanding
If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.
- Charles Swindoll
You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
- Timothy Keller
Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
- Martin Luther
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
- Oswald Chambers
If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.
- Rick Warren
The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
- Rob Bell
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
- Rowan Williams
If you understand, it is not God.
- St. Augustine
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
- St. Augustine
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.
- GC Berkouwer