Quotes about Understanding

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

What is it to be rich toward God? To understand this, imagine for a moment everything you call yours in the world as taken from you. Picture yourself abandoned and forgotten of all, in utter isolation alone with your own heart. And then ask yourself: What have I now? What do I now possess?

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.