Quotes About Understanding

the moral failings of individuals are irrelevant for understanding both why the financial crisis in the United States happened and why austerity is now perceived as the only possible response

They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America ... they knew each other better than most brothers did.

So the Giver of Death makes use of us and so does the Giver of Life. And these two are irreducibly One. And whoever does not understand this must learn to see with a single eye.

Tell me about love when you've been with someone for years, cared for them when they're ill, put up with them when they're miserable or grumpy, taken the sharp side of their tongue and still come back. Tell me about love when you've acted quite appallingly, and the other person has still accepted you.

In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works. . . . the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

Love, love, love.you have to ove, and if you don't get love right, you have to move on and forgive.

This book attempts to provide such careful instruction so that we might understand and recover faithfulness to God's Word on something that is not essential for salvation but that is both important and necessary for obedience—what the local church is to be and to do.

People can creatively devise how to approach a mute God, but they must listen to a speaking God.

It is only in the context of understanding something of God's character, of his righteousness and perfection, that we begin to understand the tremendous nature of saying that God truly is love, and his love has a depth, texture, fullness, and beauty to it that we, in our present state, can only begin to wonder at.

it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

People may forget what you said or what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

Metaphor is a way of knowing the world, and no less a one than other sorts of ways of gaining knowledge.

I didn't judge; it was as if that were part of my purpose: I wanted to know the men who moved through my nights like passing comets, wanted them to feel the pleasure of being known.

I think I understood intuitively that there was no sustenance for me in the religion of explanation and prohibition.

They manage our perception and interpretation of environmental information in a way that is consistent with what we believe.

would say that many, if not most people, grow up in a family and cultural environment that gives little, if any, objective, nonjudgmental support to the unique ways in which we feel compelled to express ourselves

objective perspective

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language.

Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why

Living in a diverse world—or leading a diverse work force—is more than a mental construct, a memorized list of cultural differences, or a willingness to be tolerant. It's about examining how well we function at the margins and interfaces of life, where divergent ways of being and believing meet and collide. (Kemper

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with an "alienated majesty