Quotes About Understanding

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

who says dog means dog?

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

And then I see what she means. Because I did have to tell her, just like she had to tell me all of this. I had to trust her. Sometimes you have to tell someone else what it's like. Because if you don't, you'll go nuts.

That was the second thing—understanding what Mrs. Granger had said.

We both hang up, but it's like there's still a connection. I can feel it. And it feels good.

As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?

Research knowledge of a complex phenomenon advances by comparing the relative contributions of different models.

For him there had to be a reason for everything; it had to make sense – and to make one sense, not two.

A large part of our day is spent communicating, so we need to do it well.

You're communicating only if you're conveying information.

There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them.

Since the knowledge is available, why try to struggle along without it? The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

It is necessary to understand that it is not sin that humbles most, but grace.

The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.

ignorance is the cause of the unbelief that fails of the inheritance. If, in our orthodox Churches, the abiding in

those who have not yet fully understood what the Savior meant with His command, or who have feared

reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.

One of the great reasons that so many Christians never come out of the Old Covenant, never even know that they are in it, and have to come out of it, is that there is so much head knowledge, without the power of the Spirit in the heart being waited for.

who seek to know Him fully, as He has already blessed

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man.

Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the answer you have to give to this call.

Our prayers must not be a vague appeal to His mercy or an indefinite cry for blessing, but the distinct expression of definite need. It is not that His loving heart does not understand our cry or is not ready to hear, but He desires it for our own sake. Such definite prayer teaches us to know our own needs better. It demands time and thought and self-scrutiny to find out what really is our greatest need.