Quotes About Understanding

God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.

Don't underestimate the importance of reading and understanding God's Word.

No matter what your situation, God is always ready to listen.

Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error

Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what: not the usual undiscovered bird in the cold snowy willows, garishly green and yellow What could it be, this astonishment, but falling into a liquid mirror to finally understand that the purpose of earth is earth? It's plain as night. She's willing to sleep with us a little while.

language was a convenience of the heart, not something to bludgeon people with.

These were not Methodist Indians but warriors with a lineage that owed nothing to the white man. We did not live upon the same earth that they did and we flatter ourselves when we think we understand them. To pity these men is to pity the gods.

Of course he wasn't listening to what I said but to all of his imagined resonances of what I said.

I just now know that you can only meet a man at the level of his intentions.

While it is a truism that man has not learned much more than the sexual act, and that fire burns when you stick your hand into it, it behooves the scholar to immerse himself in the analyses of the problem, rather than the problem itself. One

Peoples is peoples. -Pete-

These children who come at you with knives-they're your children.-Chuck

Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.

A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.

But this will not do. No, this will never do. There are continents and shores which beseech our understanding. Seldom have we been so slow. Seldom have we been so far. My only wish is to see Far Arden again.

It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

Racism is rooted in sin—or evil, as nonreligious people might prefer—which goes deeper than politics, pointing fingers, partisan maneuvers, blaming, or name calling. We can get to a better place only if we go to that morally deeper place. There will be no superficial or merely political overcoming of our racial sins—that will take a spiritual and moral transformation as well. Sin must be named, exposed, and understood before it can be repented of.

Wealthy Christians talk about the poor but have no friends who are poor. So they merely speculate on the reasons for their condition, often placing the blame on the poor themselves.