Quotes about Understanding

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church.

Many attenders, lacking any understanding about the content or purposes of worship, assume that the routines and rituals that occur in worship services constitute the substance of worship.

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Nothing surprises me, I can anticipate others' reactions, I understand what gestures mean, silences, formulas of courtesy, ambiguous responses. Only there do I feel comfortable socially—despite the fact I rarely behave as I'm expected to—because there I know how to behave and my good manners rarely fail me.