Quotes about Understanding

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

True love has always been a two-way proposition.

I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

And if we never agree, can't we agree to disagree? If God can tolerate my mistakes, can't I tolerate the mistakes of others? If God can overlook my errors, can't I overlook the errors of others? If God allows me with my foibles and failures to call him Father, shouldn't I extend the same grace to others? One thing's for sure. When we get to heaven, we'll be surprised at some of the folks we see. And some of them will be surprised when they see us.

In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.