Quotes about Understanding

But even here we must be careful that we are not seeking to satisfy our souls by finding some spiritual "good" in the adversity. Rather we must trust God that He is working in the experience for our good, even when we see no beneficial results. We must learn to trust God when He doesn't tell us why, when we don't understand what He is doing.

There is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.

To understand is to forgive.

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

But when we sit together, close, said Bernard, we melt into each other with phrases.

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.