Quotes About Understanding

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

The capacity to dream beyond the facts of existence into their significance enables us to remember a true past, one that simultaneously reflects and illuminates experience.

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

Feelings have their own kind of wisdom.

If we put God into a box built by our own human understanding, we'll never be able to endure the trials of our faith.

That I have not seen does not mean I cannot appreciate.

God's ways cannot be fully explained, for He sees the big picture while we only see a small slice.

The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.

The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.

We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.

Voddie Baucham, a former all-American football player, offers a catchy athletic metaphor. "Sending young people into the world without a biblical worldview," he says, "is like sending a ballplayer onto the field without a playbook."17 Team spirit is not enough. An athlete needs to comprehend the game's strategy.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

Outside the ivory tower, ordinary people are not interested in a worldview that spins out a logically coherent system, and yet contradicts human experience. They are looking for a worldview that makes sense of the world we actually inhabit. They want one that explains the undeniable facts of human experience, not one that suppresses those facts for the sake of its own internal logical consistency.

To get a message across to people, you must address their assumptions, questions, objections, hopes, fears, and aspirations.

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don't know the characters and can't make sense of the plot.

Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.

A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.

When working with your teenager to address his sensory issues, make it a partnership.

Only people who understand that Christianity is true to the real world are capable of the relaxed confidence that allows them to be open, patient, and loving toward those who differ from them.

The English word know is a translation of the Hebrew yada, which means to know by experience.