Quotes about Comprehension
To know is not less than to feel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.
— Parker Palmer
I have come to think, as have so many others in the course of history, that the goal of Christian faith is the experience of God, not the comprehension of God.
— Peter Enns
That Jesus was not and could not have been understood by walking with Jesus in and around Galilee. The disciples themselves—those Jesus handpicked to carry on his work—were utterly clueless about the big picture.
— Peter Enns
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
— Deuteronomy 32:29
“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”
— Judges 13:18
And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.
— 1 Kings 10:3
And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain.
— 2 Chronicles 9:2
Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
— Job 8:10
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
— Job 12:11
“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
— Job 13:1
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
— Job 15:9