Quotes About Understanding

on. Let's look at each of these verses separately to see what the Lord is saying to us about this vital subject.

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the LORD are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. HOSEA 14:9 NLT

Encouraging someone and speaking truth into someone's life when God asks you to do so are healthy and wonderful things—but it's never right to make a quick, dismissive judgment. Our judgments based on external appearances don't have all the information and wisdom that

Remember, God is not surprised by your faults. He knew about them before you did—and He loves you anyway!

For the Gentiles

to reason, to figure, and to be logical, rotating my mind around and around an issue until I am worn out and confused. I want to experience the peace of mind and heart that comes from trusting in God, not in my own human insight and understanding.

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. ( Colossians 3:13 )

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't then have, I think of that conversation and it seems implausible that its importance didn't hit me in the face. (And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read).

La experiencia, eso que llamamos experiencia, no es el inventario de nuestros dolores, sino la simpatía aprendida hacia los dolores ajenos.

Traigo los ojos con que ella miró estas cosas, porque me dio sus ojos para ver:

Me di cuenta que su voz estaba hecha de hebras humanas

Tendré que oírlo, hasta que se le muera su voz.

With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

You don't understand, Padawan. Qui-Gon gave the smile that he gave so rarely, a full smile that lit up his blue eyes and caused them to sparkle with warmth. I look forward to it.

Roan had taught him not to care what anyone thought, but to regard everyone's feelings.

The great essayist Montaigne understood that "in an essay, the track of a person's thoughts struggling to achieve some understanding of a problem is the plot, is the adventure." Rather than simply telling a story from her life, the memoirist both tells the story and muses upon it, trying to unravel what it means in the light of her current knowledge.

Self-revelation without analysis or understanding becomes merely an embarrassment to both reader and writer.

not an experience shared by most potential readers—I realized that, if I did it well, some of those readers could have that same experience of identification that I valued so much. Moments in my life might resonate with moments in theirs. They might even step right outside their familiar histories and share mine for a while.

Perhaps also part of what dialogic understanding entails is the acceptance of divergence, breakage, splinter, and fragmentation as part of the often tortuous process of democratisation.

See? I can read between the lies of the lines of the writing on the wail.

Unlike Maxine Kumin, I never learned to pay the syntax.