Quotes about Understanding

From the very beginning, God geared the faith walk to be relational, not informational. The latter was always intended for the sake of the former.

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

People have lots of different feelings about what happened when Sen. Franken made the really hard decision to resign. I have come to respect people have lots of different feelings, sometimes very strong feelings, and they're not all the same.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

Hear the other side.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for? They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.