Quotes About Understanding

The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

People who were nothing like him liked him. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him.

Kindness is love's response to weakness

Patience is the decision to move at someone else's pace rather than pressure him or her to match yours. Patience

you want me to follow you on a journey, you have to come get me. The journey must begin where I am, not where you are or where you think I should be.

patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission. Your

As followers of Jesus, we should be known as people who like people who are nothing like us.

Fear defies logic. Information only goes so far. Even when armed with all the reasons why we should not be afraid, the fear remains.

Love fills the gaps. Love reduces the friction created by our limited insight, knowledge, and judgment-inhibiting experiences. There is much I don't know. There are things I'll never understand. But my ignorance does not impede my capacity to put others first.

one of the primary reasons that you have to listen to outsiders: If you don't, you will be driven by the complaints and demands of the insiders.

Political and ideological alignment is not a prerequisite for carrying one another's burdens. I can love you the way Jesus loved me regardless of who you voted for.

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.

No es tan grande prestigio como cree la gente simple, a cada rato nacen chicos con los ojos abiertos, aunque hay que reconocer que en general vienen al mundo con los ojos sensatamente cerrados.

Quizá eso que silencio sólo puedas decírmelo tú. Y noto que, a tu modo, me lo dices.

Al lector se le llenaron de pronto los ojos de lágrimas, y una voz cariñosa le susurró al oído: —¿Por qué lloras, si todo en este libro es de mentira? Y él respondió: —Lo sé; pero lo que yo siento es de verdad.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind.

Together is my favorite place to be." "Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is." "You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.

Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.