“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.” WorldDoeRealSoulEyeChristianUnderstandingViewsOpinionPrinciplesCasesHappenedPurePerceptionFoundationIntellectAccessScriptureScalesFormerRelyOrthodoxFacultySensibleProvidingVisionariesLiteralPreventingCfsLogosPreconceptionsReal KnowledgeSense Perception Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.” PastUnderstandingHappenedGuidesHindsight Book:The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933 Source: The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933
“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.” PeopleWorldReasonPoliticalUnderstandingIssuesClearHappenedGroupsEconomicOrganizedVotersIncentives Author:Thomas Sowell
“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.” PeopleIfsMenWayChildrenHas BeensMadeDifferentFoundJesusUnderstandingBornNumbersMillionsImpossibleHappenedCenturyChangedTaughtBirthMessagesMen And WomenTwentiesCaughtDifferent ThingsNew WaysCaught UpUnderstanding LifeJesus Birth Author:Frederick Buechner
“What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.” MindKindWholeUnderstandingTechnologyHappenedAtheismInformationRevolutionPureMajorsPositive AtheismBranchesDigitalGeneticsBack AgainInformation Technology Author:Richard Dawkins
“My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.” PeopleLooksLittlesMadeImportantUnderstandingGoalHappenedSourceRemainsImportant ThingsClimateClimate ChangeAvailablePrimariesFuzzyPrimary Source Author:Bill McKibben
“The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long ago. We've lost true history. But if we are willing to tolerate the contradictions, and if we suffer through events rather than ticking them off, we may at least get closer to understanding what happened than if we grip the handrail of a carefully polished and reassuringly heroic narrative.” IfsWayMayLongBigsSufferingLostUnderstandingHappenedEventsWillingConfusionNarrativeContradictionHeroicTolerateLong AgoPolished Author:Nicholson Baker
“So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsWellsDifferentWarTogetherCultureCoursesSocialDifficultUnderstandingKnow HowHappenedWorshipTheologyDifferent WaysCivil WarSocial NetworkCongregationDenominationsWar Time Author:Michael Emerson
“There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldRememberGrowsUnderstandingPrayerCommonSeeingHappenedTerribleTragedyAround The WorldTouchedTake TimeTerrible Tragedy Author:Shane Claiborne