Passeth Understanding Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Helen Keller

#4. 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

#5. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

Gelett Burgess

#10. We need not know a thing in order to be able to investigate and control it. Where knowledge is absent - and in an absolute sense we can know nothing - a vague working hypothesis is quite enough for all practical and even philosophical purposes.

Aldous Huxley

#11. Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

Eugene O'Neill

#13. A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#14. People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Ellen Barkin

#15. The press really is not doing its job of holding the candidates' feet to the fire. The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

Michael Bloomberg

#16. I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people

Nathanael Kanyinga

#17. I knew exactly why I shouldn't be her friend. This was no mere attraction. What I suffered from was total, debilitating awareness. Every freaking inch of me tuned in to her.

Linda Kage

#18. I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who's too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi

Ai Yazawa

#19. I'm not the girl next door.

Carine Roitfeld

#20. I'm not exactly sure where we are, but I'm confident of where we're not.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

Hanley Ramirez

#22. No, I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

John Green

#23. The intimations of gravity hung heavy, the meaning passeth all understanding.

Neil Postman

#24. Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.

N.H. Kleinbaum