Quotes about Understanding

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

When tempted to criticize your parents, spouse, or children, bite your tongue.

After someone apologizes to you, don't lecture them. Remember that cruel words deeply hurt.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.

Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology.

None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. ROMANS 3:10—12

We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.