Quotes About Understanding

Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place.

The first step in personal revival is to get God in His rightful place. When God is recognized as being above me, beyond me, highly exalted, over me, and totally separate from me, I am getting in position for a downpour. When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place. That's what God's holiness does for us—it puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it – in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

Expirience is the oracle of truth

Paradoxically, admitting your own powerlessness can free you from the need to fix everything and allow us to be truly present to the other person, and to listen. A cartoon in The New Yorker had one woman saying testily to her friend, 'There's no point in our being friends if you won't let me fix you.

It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

Why had I not understood that this was not simply the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the church of his tomb? It was also the Church of the Resurrection.

It costs when you live a life of respect, compassion, and sensitivity.

True prayer wants others to flourish. If any still have a hard time praying for church leaders, they might use a prayer that I find helpful when I am struggling with another person. My prayer is to see that person as God sees him or her.

Looking at our personal relationships can help us get our prayer life in order.

mine what we know about human relationships for ways to understand our relationship with God.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. —St. Ignatius Loyola

The third way of understanding the way of Ignatius is as an incarnational spirituality.

People are more than the worst thing they've ever done in their lives.

Aristotle, who believed that we become like the object of our contemplation.

As my sister tells her children, "You have two ears and one mouth for a reason: listening is more important than talking.

The Great Problem Solver, as it turned out, had been at work on a problem that I had only dimly comprehended.

Dragons know nothing of human hearts. The loveliest woman never sees her own beauty with her eyes until she sees it with her heart.