Quotes about Understanding

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for? They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.

The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

It's always easier to see a lack of wisdom in others than it is to see it in ourselves. That's why we must pray daily for wisdom.

We will always need to ask God for His wisdom and counsel about everything, because He is the only one who knows the whole truth

Prayer is not telling God what to do. Prayer is partnering with God to see that His will is done. You don't have to fully understand what God's will is in order to pray that His will be done.

And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of—and a desire for—the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them.

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5

Teach me to not only know Your truth, but to live in it. In