Quotes about Understanding

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Virtually the whole of the scriptures and the understanding of the whole of theology—the entire Christian life, even—depends upon the true understanding of the law and the gospel.

it has been and always will be my desire not to attack even those whom public repute disgraces. I am not delighted at the faults of any man, since I am very conscious myself of the great beam in my own eye, nor can I be the first to cast a stone at the adulteress.

your thoughts concerning God are too human.

To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.

For "no one has ascended into heaven but He who descended" (John 3:13), that is, no one arrives at the understanding of divinity but he who has first been humbled and who has come down to an understanding of himself, for there he discovers the understanding of God at the same time.

For it is human to avoid or hate because of some error what you do not understand or regard as true; but to persecute manifest and acknowledged truth — this is altogether satanical.

For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.