Quotes About Understanding

And even if that weren't true, Sikander had never understood how any decent human being could take pride in holding the sincere beliefs of others in contempt.

When people say they're frustrated, it's actually a verb. When people say "I have doubts," they've turned the verb into a noun and made it so that it becomes an event or a thing. When people say, "I have frustration," they don't actually have a bucket of frustration. They're in the process of being frustrated. That is an activity. When you turn it back into an activity, you can find out so much more about it.

In order to change beliefs, we first need to learn a way of finding out the qualities of beliefs.

We can answer the question "Who is God?" only by attending to who God has revealed himself to be.

if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its real point.

Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

They will understand a familiar speech, who hear a sermon as if it were nonsense, and they have far greater help for the application of it to themselves. And withal you will hear their objections, and know where it is that Satan hath most advantage over them, and what it is that stands up against the truth; and so may be able to shew them their errors, confute their objections, and more effectually convince them.

Truth loves the light and is most beautiful when it is most naked. If you would not teach men, why are you in the pulpit? If you would teach men, why do you not speak so as to be understood?

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied.

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Cassius Gallio had been right, but being right was overrated. Being smart was safer.

George Bush knew five times more about the governments of the world—his own included—than Ronald Reagan ever would.

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his fmight, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; 24But glet him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, 10judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.