Quotes about Understanding

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

Never allow your heart to question God's love. Settle it on the front end of your quest to know Him and experience Him: He loves you. Every dealing He has with you is an expression of His love for you. God would not be God if He expressed Himself in any way other than perfect love! What you believe about God's love for you will be reflected in how you relate to Him. If you really believe God is love, you will also accept that His will is always best.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.