Quotes about Understanding

We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.

One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

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.