To understand is to forgive.

Comprehension follows perception.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God's love for us.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

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