Quotes about Understanding
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
When tempted to criticize your parents, spouse, or children, bite your tongue.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
After someone apologizes to you, don't lecture them. Remember that cruel words deeply hurt.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.
— James H. Cone
Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology.
— James H. Cone
None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. ROMANS 3:10—12
— James Montgomery Boice