Quotes About Understanding

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Books should always be open.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

Instead of questioning him directly any more, they had him spell out what he wanted to say letter by letter, Deadpan pointing them out on the chart and Kane jotting them down on a piece of paper — providing Eddie nodded yes — until he had complete words and sentences made up out of them.

How do you go about finding out who the best-loved woman in a guy's life is? Ask him?

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.

Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

Willem didn't try to change people, just to serve them.

if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!

Betsie,' I whispered, "what can we do for these people? Afterward I mean. Can't we make a home for them and care for them and love them?' 'Corrie, I pray every day that we will be allowed to do this! To show them that love is greater!' And it wasn't until I was gathering twigs later in the morning that I realized that I had been thinking of the feeble-minded, and Betsie of their persecutors.

if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. . . .

Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would

It's too heavy," I said. "Yes," he said. "And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.

Lord, I give to You the way I feel about Karel, my thoughts about our future—oh, You know! Everything! Give me Your way of seeing Karel instead. Help me to love him that way. That much.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces!