Quotes about Understanding

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.