Quotes About Understanding

I have busted my gut to learn how to make people open up. Meyer was born with it. A loving empathy shines out of those little bright-blue eyes. Strangers tell him things they wouldn't tell their husband or their priest.

John D. MacDonald

Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship.

what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.

In a morally and religiously diverse culture such as ours, humility is a much-needed key to harmony.

We have forgotten how to flex two mental muscles at the same time: the muscle of moral conviction and the muscle of compassion to all regardless of their morality.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

Hati-hati terhadap kemarahan orang yang penyabar.

Whatever is, is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.

It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.

That is exactly what we need. Eyes to see. Isn't that what Jesus offered us—clarity? Recovery of sight for the blind (Luke 4:18)? We need clarity and we need it badly. A simple prayer rises from my heart: Jesus, take away the fog and the clouds and the veil, and help me to see . . . give me eyes to really see.

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.

Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."8

What do you want me to pray for them? Show me what to pray.

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)

many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

Make no room for offense.

Story is how we figure things out, bring order and meaning to the events around us. The story we hold at any given time shapes our perceptions, hopes, and expectations; it gives us a place to stand.