Quotes about Understanding
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
— Napoleon Hill
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Oswald Chambers
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
— John Calvin
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
— Philip Yancey
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
— Duke Ellington
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
— Mary Baker Eddy
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
— JD Greear
The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.
— David Platt
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
— Origen