Quotes about Understanding

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. (Psalm 86:11 ESV)

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.