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Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power. -- Erwin McManus
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. -- Bono
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. -- Anne Lamott
Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards. -- R. C. Sproul
No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me. -- Adrian Peterson
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer. -- Anthony Hopkins
Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' -- Greg Boyle
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. -- Hans Kung
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. -- Mother Teresa
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it? -- Trai Byers
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me. -- Ray Comfort
Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking. -- Dave Gahan
What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God. -- Gene Robinson
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck. -- J. I. Packer
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. -- Thornton Wilder
I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being. -- Jon Anderson
I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God. -- Joyce Meyer
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else. -- Donald Wuerl
God gives wisdom, knowledge and understanding. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. -- Martin Luther
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. -- George Herbert
God himself is referring to Jesus as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God. -- Nhat Hanh
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding. -- King James I
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. -- Rumi
Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works. -- Carl Johan Calleman
Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner. -- Christopher Love
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. -- Saint Augustine
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. -- Oscar Wilde
It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities. -- Sterling W Sill
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless. -- Steven Weinberg
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us -- Albert Einstein
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One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist. -- Kedar Joshi
Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart. -- Blaise Pascal
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it... -- Rob Bell
Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding. -- Adrian Rogers
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God. -- Ben Bova
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards. -- R. C. Sproul
The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide. -- Larry Crabb
God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. -- Terryl L. Givens
A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.' -- Tullian Tchividjian
It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied. -- Lauryn Williams
Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating. -- Paulo Coelho
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. -- Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life. -- Jacob Needleman
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. -- R. A. Torrey
Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living. -- R. C. Sproul
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation. -- Sho Baraka
A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there. -- Kevin Baggett
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
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. -- Ravi Zacharias
No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities. -- Rajneesh
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony. -- John Calvin
We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom. -- Rich Mullins
You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. -- Richard Dawkins
Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust. -- James MacDonald
Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego. -- Shannon L. Alder
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. -- Sunday Adelaja
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. -- Margaret Atwood
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers. -- David Foster Wallace
God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation... -- Paul Cain
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -- Erich Fromm
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. -- Thomas Aquinas
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are. -- Thomas Merton
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape. -- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards. -- James Robison
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me. -- Roland Barthes
God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do. -- Helen Steiner Rice
If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence. -- Sunday Adelaja
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. -- Daniel Defoe
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship. -- Peter Kreeft

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