Quotes about Understanding
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
— Desmond Tutu
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
— Desmond Tutu
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
— Desmond Tutu
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
— Desmond Tutu
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
— Desmond Tutu
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
— Desmond Tutu
She looked at a microscope and saw a creator God. Chad looked at a microscope and saw man's scientific advances.
— DiAnn Mills
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer