Quotes About Understanding

Why aren't you in your room?" he asked. "We're married,

Who wanted to pass someone on the street and greet them only to be rewarded with a miserable sigh?

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

You listen well and that makes you a good keeper of stories. I am sure that all my memories are safe with you" -Baba

It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

There were many things a man might think he should be told when a woman agreed to marry him. She had choose not to mention several of them

Now I have seen what peace is like, I understand why you come to Britannia.

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children.

Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr

study of Scripture is important, but if we stop there, we will eventually hit a wall spiritually. Information

being angry is not the same thing as being called.

know, when James was born, I knew in here that

Worship helps us to get rid of a lot of life's spiritual and natural frustrations. Through worship God brings to us a wholeness of body, mind and spirit. God is refining our understanding of true worship. True worship comes from the heart, in love and adoration unto the Lord.

Sie nahmen mich wahr und ließen mich sein, wie ich war. (Bei denen bleib ich.)

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let's you and me not go there, okay?

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

Olivia understood that actually they would be happier without her, doing matronly things and being comfortable with each other. But they were speaking for her sake.

Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.