Quotes about Understanding

mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, "No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all.

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.