Quotes about Understanding
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
— Oswald Chambers
When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
— Joyce Meyer
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
— Oswald Chambers
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
— Peter Kreeft
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
— JC Ryle
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
— Richard Sibbes
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
— Oswald Chambers
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?
— Henry Blackaby
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
— Timothy Keller
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
— AW Tozer
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
— Oscar Romero