Quotes about Understanding
Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.
— Wayne Dyer
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
— Frederick Buechner
Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.
— Peter Kreeft
A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
— Paulo Coelho
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.
— Joel Osteen
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
— Mother Teresa
One can't reach the Truth but through Love.
— St. Augustine
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
— Thomas Merton
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it
— Timothy Keller