Quotes about Understanding
Prayer is the best response to hatred.
— Charles Spurgeon
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
— Oswald Chambers
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
— Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
— Oswald Chambers
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
— Mae West
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
— Mother Teresa