Quotes About Understanding

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

Como un cristiano ateo que lucha, tengo mis preguntas y dudas sobre Dios, pero estoy agradecido de que como el hombre ciego que fue sanado, no me hace falta entenderlo todo para creer.

There is a difference between believing in and believing. Thomas believed in Jesus. But once he touched his Lord, once he had his questions answered, once the tension was resolved, Thomas no longer believed in Jesus. He believed him.

Through years of maturing, I've learned that it's not our job to force our beliefs down others' throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.

If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.

Make sure that the person you're in the room with is the most important person in the world when you're together.

Weird people love well.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

Loving the One is critically important to finding happiness with your Two. And loving your Two is one of the best ways to love the One.

Jesus!" "Are you hurt?" "Jesus!" "Walk down the hallway and come back when you have more vocabulary.

Talking with people was more confusing than being confused by yourself.

I looked at her, looking being one of my better law-enforcement techniques.

Dog's ears went up at the word "ham": they say dogs have a vocabulary of about twenty words, and I was pretty sure that seventeen of Dog's were ham.

I have found in most relationships with women it is best to remember their birthdays but forget their age.

We are finite beings; how can we understand the infinite?

There wasn't anything more to say, so I didn't. That's the thing about comforting—it's almost more important to know when not to talk.

Good friends are the ones who can remain close without losing their ability to

He studied me. "You were in Nam?" I nodded. "Yep." He turned to Lolo. "Hey, Chief, how many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" She stared at him. "I don't know." He pointed his cigar at her in an agitated fashion. "That's right, because you weren't there, man!" We

He said okay, probably because I asked him twice and he had been taught that if somebody asks you something twice you say yes, no matter what it is.

I glanced at the posture. "Look, I know you think you've got the original franchise on grief, but there's a lot of it flying around these days and most of us just suck it up and do what we can to help each other, you know?