Quotes about Understanding

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

Teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the humility of wisdom.