Quotes About Understanding

Ask any of us: What is your concept of God, your understanding of sin or salvation, your account of the nature and purpose of the church, or your Christian view of right and wrong? Caught short by the question, we may come up with a pat answer. This is understandable. Or we may hesitate and stammer, unless we have stopped at some earlier point to consider the matter. And yet our day-to-day decisions are based upon this embedded theology.

The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?

The goal of Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies is to help you understand the basics of football rules and the player positions.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

If men knew each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Le long sentier vers l'humanisation de l'humanité est éclairé par trois lumières : le désir de comprendre le monde (la science), de l'embellir (l'art) et d'aider les êtres vivants à vivre (l'empathie). Trois mots à retenir : « connaîtras », « créer », « compatir ».

Bilim dünyay? anlamaya çal???r; dinler(ve felsefeler) ise genellikle insan ya?am?na bir anlam verme görevini üstlenmi?lerdir. ?ki taraf da kendi alanlar?nda kalmak ko?uluyla, din ile bilim birbirlerini ayd?nlatabilirler.

I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

When you write about the people you hate the most, do it with love.

It is very easy to misunderstand a strange people, and very hard to understand them thoroughly.

The world thinks we idealize our friend, and tells us that love is proverbially blind. Not so: it is only love that sees.

Hating your neighbour is almost as secure a psychological prop as loving him, especially if he differs from you in looks, language or habits.

All people want is someone to listen.

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'années de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun problème. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras cassés, avec quantité de personnes de cet âge.

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.