Quotes about Understanding

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

The children of God have more in common than they have differences. And even the differences can be seen as an opportunity. God will help us see a difference in someone else not as a source of irritation but as a contribution.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.