Quotes about Understanding

The words of an ambassador are always other-centered. Consider the problem ("according to their needs")

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

The Bible is the only reliable source for these life-interpreting facts.

What sins and weaknesses in the other person do you need to consider as you decide what your next move will be? In

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension

Why bother with other people?

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.