Quotes About Understanding

there is a vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you.

We do not walk away from others to punish them; we turn away so the embers of anger can cool and reason can again rule our hearts.

Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.

As a matter of fact, He doesn't do things—He embodies them. We live; He is life. We love; He is love. We think; He is knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. We dream; He is the fulfillment of every dream, even ones we are not yet capable of conceiving.

Discernment could be likened to distinguishing a light in the distance.

It is important to approach the Word with humility. There is danger when we go to the Word to gather information to establish our opinions or beliefs. We then read what we believe, instead of believe what we read.

The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.

Which is why she'd fallen desperately in love the first time she'd met Sharlah. She'd looked into her foster daughter's eyes and she'd known her. Just . . . known her. Sharlah's fears, anxieties, fragile hope, bone-deep strength. Rainie saw all of her daughter. And she loved her, not in spite of her weaknesses, but because of them. Sharlah was a fighter.

Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

if I could love him less, then maybe I could forgive him more.

And that's love, yes? Not making all the right decisions all the time, but being there when it matters the most.

I don't know who I am," I say. "No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who've never been kidnapped.

The gift of gratitude, we say in AA. It took me a long time to find it, and I'm still not the best at remembering it, but every now and then, I almost understand.

I hate the raw edge to my voice, but I can't stop it. These cases shouldn't be personal to me. But they are. That's the thing I can't help, and Paul couldn't understand.

A perfect family, I think, is one that's learned how to forgive.

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

We regard each other for a long moment. I can tell he has no more apologies in him, and I know I have no more forgiveness in me, so I guess that makes us even.

YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.