Quotes about Understanding

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

He showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand … as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought, What may this be, and I was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last. For I thought it might fall suddenly to nothing, for little cause; and I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so has everything its being, through the love of God.

She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.