Quotes About Understanding

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. And

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Maga nije bila kadra vjerovati u imena, morala je stvar dotaknuti prstom i tek bi je tada prihva?ala.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

He stilled. He knew she was leaving—this wasn't a surprise—but how did he tell her he didn't want her to go? That he wanted to know all the things that made her sad, all the things that made her laugh? That he wanted to reach over and wipe those tears away?

She glanced at Betsy, who smiled as if they'd always been friends, the kind who could communicate without words, the kind who knew what the other one needed whether anyone said so or not.

To search her eyes for happiness and contentment—two things I want for her more than anything else.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

A Woman is a foreign land,Of which, though there he settle young,A man will ne'er quite understandThe customs, politics, and tongue.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.

Not every shift in understanding is good, since we make good and bad decisions, but we can never learn without being open to change in our thinking.

A crucial premise of interpretation is that the Bible is designed to challenge us and our worldview.

But when two "Spirit-instructed interpreters" argue for mutually exclusive positions, a problem arises. Who brings the correct message taught by the Spirit, and how do we decide? We would argue that this question emphasizes the Spirit's teaching work at the wrong place, by stressing understanding of content.

we all also possess preunderstandings, though we may not be conscious of them all. As we examine an issue or the text, it is helpful to consider how we are approaching the question and why. Sometimes it is dialogue with someone who thinks differently that helps us see why we see things the way we do.

Technology at its finest is easy to adopt, quick to implement, and bound to be underappreciated.

Love takes its meaning from the mainfold ways in which it is used; which are indefinite in number. You can never understand its menaing fully because you can never experience love in all its context. And so it is energy and entropy.

Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

I don't want my sons to be traumatized by what happened to their father or grandfathers or great-grandfathers, but everyone should know about the lives of those who came before them so that they can figure out why their fingers are bent or why sometimes they feel bone-crushingly sad for no reason that anyone else can see.

If our lives are to be shaped by the story of Scripture, we need to understand two things well: the biblical story is a compelling unity on which we may depend, and each of us has a place within that story.

The way we understand human life depends on what conception we have of the human story.