Quotes About Understanding

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are not. You can't tell them the truth. You have to lie and play games. I've never in my entire life been with someone with whom I didn't have to play a game. I've never been with anyone with whom I could be exactly who I am.

No rezo porque no quiero aburrir a Dios

El amor, a quien pintan ciego, es vidente y perspicaz porque el amante ve cosas que el indiferente no ve y por eso ama

La lengua, que es siempre y últimamente la lengua materna, no se aprende en Gramáticas y diccionarios, sino en el decir de la Gente

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.

All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said? Is it true? What of it?

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

As the early church boasted rightly, the message of Jesus is both simple enough for a child to paddle in and deep enough for an elephant to swim in.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

What is the difference between God disguising himself and deceiving us? That is where the principle of suspended judgment operates. Face to face with mystery, and especially the mystery of evil, the faith that understands why it has come to trust must trust where it has not come to understand. Faith does not know why in terms of the immediate, but it knows why it trusts God who knows why in terms of the ultimate.

The first level of understanding necessary to faith is becoming critically aware of our dilemma in life without God.

Erudition lends conviction to self-deception.