Quotes about Understanding
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
— Alistair Begg
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
— Mother Teresa
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
— Dorothy Sayers
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.
— Henri Nouwen
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
— Euripides
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
— Barack Obama
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
— Thomas Merton
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
— Desmond Tutu
The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.
— Henri Nouwen