Quotes about Understanding

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Nothing is too much trouble for Love.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.

Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.