Paul III Quotes

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.