God has given us the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds. He is eyes & understanding to us. We dare not try to get on without Him.
—AW Tozer
Not law but gospel, not demand but promise is the center of revelation, even in the days of the old covenant, to which man’s part is to respond in faith and in the walk of faith (Gen. 17:1), just as Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 understood the revelation of God to Abraham.
—Herman Bavinck
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
—Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
—Albert Einstein
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
—Albert Einstein
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
—Isaac Newton
Most men need patience to die, but a saint that understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live.
—John Flavel
There is certainly nothing that will bring greater comfort and consolation to the believer than to understand the nature of prophecy.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The essential principle is that history can be understood only in terms of God’s kingdom-that is, the rule of God in the world as a whole and including the Church.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense.
But why must it be?
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I obviously do everything to be “hard to understand” myself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To understand is to forgive.
—Blaise Pascal
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
—Carl Jung
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
—Oscar Wilde
Hold your tongue; you won’t understand anything.
If there is no God, then I am God.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Civilization is something imposed on a recalcitrant majority by a minority who understood how to take ownership of the means of power and coercion.
—Sigmund Freud
There is a wide difference between understanding *the doctrine of the Scripture* as in the letter, and a true knowing the mind of Christ.
—John Owen
The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.
—John Newton
The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.
—John Newton
That peace which results from true faith passes understanding, and that joy is joy unspeakable.
—Jonathan Edwards
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
—John Locke
It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.
—John Locke
The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
—John Locke
The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
—John Locke
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Everything that does not suit us in others allows us to understand ourselves.
—Taras Shevchenko