Quotes About Understanding

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...

The second flaw is that some activities, almost by definition, defy being broken down into steps.

I would know Christina Rossetti in a minute but not you.

Es crucial, crucial, entender que no es nuestra búsqueda de la santidad lo que nos habilita para ver al Señor. Más bien, el Señor mismo es el que nos habilita para ver al Señor, no las cosas buenas que hacemos.

Debido a que Dios inspiró las Escrituras, crea que lo que lee fue destinado para usted, al menos de alguna manera que se asocia con Cristo, así como para los primeros que recibieron el mensaje. Sin esa actitud, rara vez percibirá la aplicación de un pasaje de las Escrituras a su situación personal.

Porque mientras mejor entendamos la Biblia, más preparados estaremos para aplicarla

La mente de Dios y la Palabra de Dios son mucho más amplias que nuestras propias perspectivas y Él nos llevará a través de la Biblia para orar con entendimiento por cosas que están mucho más allá de las mismas cosas de siempre.

How does the Word memorized become the Word applied? It happens through meditation.

no es la mera lectura de la Biblia lo que nos convierte en «un hacedor eficaz» de ella, sino la meditación.

why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.

Si no entiendes el significado del versículo, ve al siguiente. Si el significado de ese versículo es muy claro, pero nada viene a tu mente para orar, pasa al siguiente. Solo habla con el Señor acerca de todo aquello que se te ocurre mientras lees la Palabra, sin prisa. Hazlo aun si —y esta parte del libro es, la más factible de ser mal interpretada— lo que viene a tu mente no tiene nada que ver con el texto.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

Whenever anyone uttered a word against gay men or women, Grace was outspoken. "You shouldn't criticize people who are homosexual," she told her friend Prudy Wise. "It can be very destructive, and it is so easy to become mean without realizing it.

She had an understanding about people, and compassion—she didn't talk about it, but you heard how she spoke and saw how she behaved.

I catch the idea by two senses. But when I read aloud I hear what is read and I see it, and hence two senses get it and I remember it better, if I do not understand it better.

The greatest channel to peace" he said, "[involves] talking about problems…. For as long as we have men, we are going to have differences. And it seems to me we can disagree without being disagreeable.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and.

Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Our models do have a strong congruence with the world. Our models fall far short of representing the real world fully.

This ancient Sufi story was told to teach a simple lesson but one that we often ignore: The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made.