Quotes about Understand

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." God's thoughts are indeed higher than ours, but when he reduces his thoughts into words and reveals them in Scripture, he expects us to study them, meditate on them, and understand them—again, not exhaustively, but accurately.

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honors God

Thankfully, our disappointments matter to God, and He has a way of taking even some of the bitterest moments we go through and making them into something of great significance in our life. It's hard to understand it at the time. Not one of us wants that thread when it is being woven in. Not one of us says, 'I can hardly wait to see where this is going to fit.' We all say at that moment, 'This is not the pattern I want.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking — their mindsets.

The fact is the planet is warming right now, and it is easier to blame it on some human activity rather than saying we should better understand the whole problem and recognize there are natural conditions that are impacting this, too.

There's a verse in Proverbs that speaks to me. "There are three things which are too wonderful for me, four which I do not understand. The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid." The

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.