Quotes about Understanding

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need

I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.

Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.

I was only just beginning to realize what a horribly destructive thing hate is, how it destroys inwards as well as outwards. I

Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers

Her godfather was an English canon who had taught her about a God of love and compassion, a God who was mysterious and tremendous, but not to be understood as "two atoms of hydrogen plus one atom of oxygen make water" could be understood. A God who cared about all that had been created in love.

Love does not judge.

As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone.

Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace.

Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.

Some things are not worth fighting for and some are worth dying for, Wisdom helps you understand which are which.

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.