Quotes About Understanding

Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.