Quotes about Understanding

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.