Quotes About Understanding

Just as there is evil in the world, so is there good. Despite those filled with prejudice, hate, and intolerance, acceptance and understanding are becoming more commonplace. The ignorance and lies of the past are disappearing and a new world stands before us. Friendship, understanding, and compassion are more powerful things than hate, and will one day lead us all to a better place...

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.

In a world where so many speak and don't hear, she is somebody who listens with her mind and hears with her heart.

my favorite kind of people are the ones who let me be as crazy as i am.

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?

the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants

One reason we turn a deaf ear to God is because we're afraid of what He's going to say, but that's because we don't know His heart toward us. You want to hear what He has to say. Trust me. The Song of Songs says, 'His mouth is sweetness itself.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.

The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses; they can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be deduced via deductive reasoning; they can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be learned by logic; they can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?

God trusts most those who know Him best, and those who know Him best are those who have spent the most time with Him.

Our biggest problem is our small view of God.

each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Yes, the Bible is our sword. It's our best offense, our best defense. But when we misinterpret the truth, we're abusing the Bible.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

We can't just know what we believe; we need to know why we believe what we believe.

He did not understand, he admitted to himself, how these elections worked. They seemed such a waste of effort to attain a dubious outcome. Better to know what is best for the people and give it to them by force, if necessary, until they are re-educated about their duties to the State.

I was clever in a severely limited sense