Quotes About Understanding

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

We must not let our doctrines and teachings be reduced to tools used to create a wedge between others and us. Our doctrines must be a link that continues to give us a clearer picture of Jesus and invites others to come and see what we have discovered.

In this journey, I began to understand the blessing that I have in holding my faith tradition high when it comes to Jesus because a high Christology is the elemental impulse of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Our missiology has always been clearly defined for us and our ecclesiology has been inherited, healthy or not.

Only remember, if you don't find what you need... in this life it's permissible to forgive oneself too.

The information. It's out there, Rebbe. This part is not a sin.

Hurting people, hurt people.

Much later, when I thought about it, I realized that my folks were typical of their generation of parents: Their idea of raising children was making sure we were clothed, fed, and protected. They didn't focus much on us unless we were sick or had done something wrong. They didn't hold conversations with us. Love was understood rather than expressed, and values were transmitted by example, not word of mouth.

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

The job in getting people to fight and have faith is in making them believe in what life has made them feel, making them feel that their feelings are as good as others'.

Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance.

Objectivism comes on, sometimes, as if the most important issue you have to understand is the issue of egoism versus altruism. But thats nowhere near the beginning of the process.

There is only one reality--the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.

Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The hand of one person may express more than the face of another.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.