Higher Understanding Quotes

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

The Bible isn't quick to give answers; it mainly gives the Answer.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

God knows better than we do what we need.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.