Passeth Understanding Quotes & Sayings

Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence. — Greg Smith

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

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity. — Agnes Repplier

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

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! — George A. Romero

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

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will. — Christie Brinkley

And we will keep searching for our footsteps in the sands of time... — Avijeet Das

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

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil. — Eric Hoffer

If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that. — John Kasich

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will. — Dion Fortune

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

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. — Albert Einstein

Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are. — Nelson DeMille

How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that. — Vernon Howard

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

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

It is professional snobbery that refrains training rookies. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

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