Quotes about Understanding

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.