Quotes about Understanding

it should now be generally agreed that any concept of hilasterion in the sense of placating, appeasing, deflecting the anger of, or satisfying the wrath of, is inadmissible. The more important, and truly radical, reason for firmly rejecting this understanding of propitiation is that it envisions God as the object, whereas in the Scriptures, God is the acting subject. This is especially noticeable in Romans 3.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

You will never know God unless you love your fellow man, beginning with your father.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.