Quotes about Understanding

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.