Quotes About Understanding

I'm sorry you are having trouble being happy right now, Raymond. We all take turns, I think.

Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won't hurt them. But they're not scared for no reason. They're just not scared for the reason they think they are.

You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don't fit with you at all.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Here's what I learned from Lenny in my sophomore year of high school: the down-and-out character is just as human as everybody else. You may not want to know him in real life, but in fiction, you just might dare. And in knowing him, you get a lesson in humanity: we're more the same than we might imagine. And that even the class outcast has talents. Someone just needs to tell her what they are.

Middle children become great listeners. They understand the value of acknowledging others' positions and feelings, and use this information as ammunition to help them get what they want.

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

As Jean Piaget studied children, he discovered that they were moral philosophers who struggled with good and evil, understanding and applying rules.

At various ages children become aware of different realities of the gospel.

Stories and their meaning will be learned best by children if they actively experience them.

To communicate effectively with children we must learn how they think.

Some forms of instruction seem to assume that the concept of the parent or the teacher can be fully captured in words and then transplanted, through the ears of the hearers, into their minds. This view of instruction sets the stage for failure. As adults, we can give children content—information and experiences—as material with which they can build understandings, but each child must construct his or her own concepts.

As children construct their understandings of God and religion, they are surrounded by symbols for their imaginations to take hold of and to build into their faith images. When children begin to ask questions about the rituals and symbols of the faith, we know their imaginations are grasped by the symbol and that they are working to create a meaning for it.

groups and classes for adults we often try to give them an understanding of the Christian faith by teaching the basic beliefs—the theological system—of our church. We lead them in discussing how Christians should respond to life situations and issues, but seldom do we tell them the faith story.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

The more a man knows the more he forgives.

Dispatch business quickly, and keep out of long debates and heats… be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and let it be in the grace, which seasons all words. George Fox,

It is idle to ask those who never listen whether and how God answers prayer. Caroline Stephen, 1891

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.