Quotes about Understanding
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
— Bede Griffiths
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
— John Maxwell
Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
— Albert Einstein
Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
— Ricky Gervais
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
— Corrie Ten Boom
We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
— Ravi Zacharias
A man's religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.
— Adrian Rogers
The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
— John Bunyan
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
— Muhammad Ali
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
— Isabel Allende
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
— Samuel Johnson