Quotes about Understanding

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Looking into the eyes of people who love us may be the clearest glimpse of God many of us get in this world.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Lord, show us that reconciling with those we imagine are different from us is not only for peace, but also to train us more deeply in the faith that honors everything created by your hand. Help us see that reconciliation leads to deeper knowledge of you. Amen.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Has your country lost its imagination?

When we did so poorly at helping folks recover from drug addiction, we stepped back and said, "Duh, no wonder. None of us are heroine addicts.

Not many people get argued into thinking differently, but experiences and stories move us, especially when we have the humility to listen and view the world from a different lens, from someone else's eyes.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Has

My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't understand that scare me, but the parts I do understand.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. (Psalm 86:11 ESV)