Quotes about Understanding

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God.