Quotes about Understanding

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.