Passeth All Understanding Quotes & Sayings

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — Helen Keller

You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding' - He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'." (Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure, 270) — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. — R.A. Torrey

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it. — Glenn Hughes

If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life? — Donald Trump

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding. — Helen Keller

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came. — Diet Eman

In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding. — Rajneesh

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest. — Alexander MacLaren

The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding. — Russell Kirk

One reason for the spiritual sickness of our society is that so many do not know or care about what is morally right and wrong. So many things are justified on the basis of expediency and the acquiring of money and goods. In recent times, those few individuals and institutions that have been courageous enough to stand up and speak out against adultery, dishonesty, violence, and other forms of evil are often held up to ridicule. Many things are just plain and simply wrong, whether they are illegal or not. Those who persist in following after the evil things of the world cannot know 'the peace of God, which passeth all understanding. — James E. Faust

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life. — Kanye West

In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children. — Joshilyn Jackson

Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are, — Leo Tolstoy

The intimations of gravity hung heavy, the meaning passeth all understanding. — Neil Postman

In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia ... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. — Olympia Brown

That's what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again. — William Faulkner