Quotes about Understanding
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
— Henri Nouwen
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
— RC Sproul
If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.
— Wayne Dyer
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
— Wayne Dyer
Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
— Ted Dekker
God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.
— Joel Beeke
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
— Wayne Dyer
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
— Deepak Chopra
Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
— Oswald Chambers