Quotes about Understand
If we want to know and reverence God truly, we will dedicate ourselves to becoming biblical theologians who understand the narrative and themes of Scripture.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
When we hear the Word preached, are we generally looking to have a need met (for example, to be entertained or to gather some practical advice) or are we primarily desiring to understand the original meaning of the text and apply it to our lives?
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Reply to Objection 1: The reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named, is because His essence is above all that we understand about God, and signify in word. Reply to Objection 2: Because we know and name God from creatures, the names we attribute to God signify what belongs to material creatures, of which the knowledge is natural to us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason.
— Virginia Woolf
So I says "My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." And we had the tea and the affairs too....
— Charles Dickens
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
— Charles Dickens
Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
— Joseph Brodsky
The godly understand the mystery of living by faith: "The just shall live by faith" (Heb. 10:38). They can trust God's heart where they cannot trace his hand. They can get comfort out of a promise, as Moses got water out of the rock (Exod. 17:6).
— Thomas Watson
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
— Oscar Wilde
You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.
— Confucius
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
— Confucius
and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.
— Cormac McCarthy