Understanding God Quotes

“It’s stranger than every strangeness
And the dreams of all the poets
And the thoughts of all the philosophers,
That things are really what they seem to be
And there’s nothing to understand.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“If you want to change the way that the world appears to be; you must change the way that you see everything in it. And if you want to change the world; you must change the way everyone else sees everything in it. And when everyone else sees everything in the world in a new way, the world will be changed and then mankind will turn their faces to the heavens in search of a brand new vision and then it will be able to see the heavens for what the heavens really are! That being because, in order for a person to change how he sees the world, he must first change the eyes of his soul and it is with those new eyes that man can look at the sun, that man can see the heavens, that man can know God. Then it is with these newfound truths that humanity will continue to live, but living by walking in a new reality.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.”
― Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough

“One thing is needful; to know and abide in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“By morning, Adelaide was beginning to understand why she'd never completely understood how God worked. Given that He had made the bewildering, maddening, incomprehensible species that was man from His own image, it stood to reason that the Creator would be a complicated mass of logic never meant to be understood by the female mind. That, or the fall of man in the Garden of Eden had taken them even further off the path than she'd ever realized”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, An Uncommon Courtship

“The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“God never gives you a text without commas, is that some things are not to understand today.”
― Davi Oliveira

“When people accept their belief(s) as the die-hard truth, hearing a different view will always appear false (at first) because it opposes the ones they’ve already understood and accepted as their truth.”
― Renee Chae, This Thing Called Life: Living Your Ultimate Truth

“God forgives us, as—when—we forgive them who injure us—and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew—but we never know—we never reach the end of understanding—the understanding of God—the mystery of his love...”
― Lucy Beckett, The Time Before You Die: A Novel of the Reformation

“It is in full unity with Himself that He is also – and especially and above all – in Christ, that he becomes a creature, man, flesh, that He enters into our being in contradiction, that He takes upon Himself its consequences. If we think that this is impossible it is because our concept of God is too narrow, too arbitrary, too human – far too human. Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine. And if He has revealed Himself in Jesus Christ as the God who does this, it is not for us to be wiser than He and to say that it is in contradiction with the divine essence. We have to be ready to be taught by Him that we have been too small and perverted in our thinking about Him within the framework of a false idea about God. It is not for us to speak of a contradiction and rift in the being of God, but to learn to correct our notions of the being of God, to constitute them in the light of the fact that He does this. We may believe that God can and must only be absolute in contrast to all that is relative, exalted in contrast to all that is lowly, active in contrast to all suffering, inviolable in contrast to all temptation, transcendent in contrast to all immanence, and therefore divine in contrast to everything human, in short that He can and must be the “Wholly Other.” But such beliefs are shown to be quite untenable, and corrupt and pagan, by the fact that God does in fact be and do this in Jesus Christ. We cannot make them the standard by which to measure what God can or cannot do, or the basis of the judgement that in doing this He brings Himself into self-contradiction. By doing this God proves to us that He can do it, that to do it is within His nature. And He Himself to be more great and rich and sovereign than we had ever imagined. And our ideas of His nature must be guided by this, and not vice versa.”
― Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, 14 Vols

“Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring the
complete electromagnetic spectrum that also includes the study of atmospheric pressure waves,
atmospheric voltage effects on the cellular system, and the biological effects of the various forms of
atmospheric radiation transmission.”
― Steven Magee

“Blessed are they that have faith for they shall take steps like a blind man!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“You cannot understand God if you don’t understand people”
― Sunday Adelaja

“No one has to teach God's people to know God.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

“As you teach more, you will learn more. This is the Lord's way of helping you to comprehend His gospel.”
― Russell M. Nelson, Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do

“Each of us is shaped by mysterious forces beyond our understanding, caught in the fragments of memories, fears or disappointments. Among the countless experiences that life has given me, the idea of God stands out as the most disillusioning. While I can draw comfort from humanity's weaknesses, it remains difficult to reconcile myself with the portrayal of God as presented to me. My only consolation lies in the possibility that among the multitude of religions and faiths that populate our world, none has the ultimate truth and none has the key to understanding the nature of God.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“We should not try to understand God from what we think we know about love, but rather we should strive to understand love in the light of who God is.”
― Benno Van Der Toren, Doordenken Over God

“God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.”
― Craig S. Keener, Gift and Giver

“I don't want all the silver and gold of the world, Dillon said. What I'm seeking is to know. I want to understand God and I want to know His wisdom.”
― Pat Patrick, Taellywood Treasure Hunt

“Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomical
profession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their own
homes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificial
lighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.”
― Steven Magee

“In your pursuit of knowledge, know that the very most important truth you can learn comes from the Lord. In His Intercessory Prayer to His Father, the Savior Himself confirmed this. He said, “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Above everything else you are seeking to learn, seek to know God, your Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ. Come to know Them and love Them as I do.”
― Russell M. Nelson, Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do

“Anyone who believes mythology is fiction does not understand mythology.”
― Priscilla Vogelbacher, Deities & Dragons