Quotes About Understanding

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

My mother used to pat me instead of slapping me whenever I made a mistake.

We shouldn't be too critical of players if they do have lean patches.

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Genius is patience.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

Girls, they just have something that guys don't have. They've got this patience and this motherly thing, we just don't have that same patience as men.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

When you are a father, when you talk to your son or your daughter for the first time, they don't understand you. Of course, you have patience, and you keep talking to them, and eventually they do understand.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

My grandfather didn't have any patience for little kids or their needs.

I have no patience for homophobia.

I've learned patience.