Quotes About Understanding

Stupidity is not an infection, it's a condition.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

one should never assume anything

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

Lo poco que entendían algunos comerciantes a sus clientes no dejaba nunca de desconcertarlo.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

No one knows God unless God reveals Himself to him.

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.

83]So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to "offer" something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.

Human love constructs its own image of the other person, of what he is and what he should become. It takes the life of the other person into its own hands. Spiritual love recognizes the true image of the other person which he has received from Jesus Christ; the image that Jesus Christ himself embodied and would stamp upon all men. Therefore

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved.

It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures.