Able Quote by Julie Taymor

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

— Mark Twain

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

— J. Oswald Sanders

You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.

— Radhanath Swami

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

— Mark Twain

“Romans is the only book in the Bible that systematically tells us of the plan of salvation. The only book. If you do not…

— Desmond Ford

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

— Ernest Holmes

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

— Steve Lawson

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.

— John Ruskin

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

— Dennis Potter

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language…

— James Merrill

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

— Billy Sunday