Comprehension Quotes

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We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy to our spiritual comprehension. The… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasnâ€™t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension. — Timothy Keller
There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in… — Albert Einstein
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. — Wendell Berry
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be… — Gene Robinson
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws… — Samuel Johnson
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who… — Paulo Freire
Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can… — Frederick Lenz
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at… — Ross Parmenter
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson
To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available… — Daniel D. Palmer
My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to… — Thomas a Kempis
There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz
From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to… — Saint John Chrysostom
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If… — Leo Tolstoy
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. — Benjamin Disraeli
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. — Paul Gauguin

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