Quotes about Understanding

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Everything was perfect. I sensed that I knew everything and had no questions to ask.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.