Quotes about Understanding

Unconditional love and acceptance is one of the most basic needs of all humanity.

18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.

The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

Ignorance of ourselves is another reason for forgiving others. Unfortunately it is ourselves we know least; our neighbor's sins, weaknesses, and failures we know a thousand times better than our own. Criticism of others may be bad, but it is want of self-criticism which is worse.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

God knows better than we do what we need.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.