Quotes about Understanding
But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
— NT Wright
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.
— Thomas Merton
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.
— Gordon Hinckley
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
— Thomas Jefferson
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
— Henri Nouwen
Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.
— Mother Teresa
Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.
— Henry Cloud
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
— Henry Cloud
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
— NT Wright
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death.
— John Milton