Quotes About Understanding

if we let it speak to us rather than squeezing it into our self-created mold. Even God can be known truly, though not absolutely.[54] As Athanasius observed, God can be apprehended but not comprehended;

Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.

he had to find out what was important about self-reproduction, independent of the detailed biochemical machinery.

When you understand the Atonement, then you understand the joy of being rescued.

Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Ultimately love is everything.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

For Waters, faith expressed as love was the only answer.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." —Søren Kierkegaard

We do not know space. We do not see it, we do not hear it, we do not feel it. We are standing in the middle of it, we ourselves are part of it, but we know nothing about it.

So he's got an attitude problem," Alysha said. "I get that. But he'll never stop having an attitude problem if we don't give him the breathing room to stop reacting to years of frustration and bitterness. I got him to come. Now it's up to all of us to make sure he keeps coming.

Learning 'yes' and 'no' gave them at least twenty minutes' worth of entertainment because mood-shading them could turn 'yes' into 'no, you bastard' and 'no' into 'maybe,' 'I'm only fake-saying no,' and variations of 'hells, no' that felt completely different from saying 'hells no' in any other language.

It's beginning to sound like the part we play is 'mediator'," Vasiht'h said, the mindline tacky with the memory of embarrassment, like something spilled and left without cleaning. "Goddess knows I've untangled enough squabbles in my family to know sometimes what you really need is a third party to translate.

I know depression is anger turned inward.

In your way that I have come to know and appreciate, you did not say anything. You didn't push me to say more. You waited. Your patience is a gift. You trusted our silence.

you will greatly increase your chances of success if you stop long enough to get clear on your motivation, understand why you've been doing what you're doing now,

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. I do not know what we may do, to know another better.

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.