Quotes about Understanding

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means; or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means. Never run before God's guidance. If there is the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—don't.