Quotes About Understanding

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.

Because they have never tried to get to know her. People are afraid of things they don't understand.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

And the written words were footsteps, feet running hard to another person.

She felt for the first time in her life, a sense of likeness with another human creature, and a sense of safety, not so much physical safety as the safety of understanding that comes between those who are two of a sort.

Just as it takes death to awaken us to the full stature of someone loved

Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer.

A Princess called to rule a kingdom must know it through and through, if she is to reign worthily. And how can she know it, if she is not given the freedom of it?

One thing however, Nat did for him. He taught him carpentry. He learned to distinguish between the different kinds of wood, to love them and understand their ways. Realizing that the boy had great skill with his hands Nat gave him a few tools for his own and taught him wood carving.... First the books and then the wood. Each was a milestone for him on the way through.

Those upon whom her eyes rested immediately thought the world of themselves, for it was obvious that she saw with one glance all the good in them to which their own families seemed so strangely blind.

It was the chief thing he knew about women: that they could always be calmed down by the fact, or even by the prospect, of a cup of tea.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Marguerite was not so sure. What did human beings know about anything? Their own existence was still a mystery to them, and of the existences beyond their own they knew about as much as field mice know of the world above the heads of the bending ears of corn.

There was no resentment in her manner, for acceptance and not resentment was the essence of her...