Quotes about Understanding
To employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
He who wishes to ponder what is beyond the Bible must first learn to be sensitive to what is within the Bible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Two sources of religious thinking are given us: memory (tradition) and personal insight. We must rely on our memory and we must strive for fresh insight.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not enough to think about the prophets; we must think through the prophets. It is not enough to read the Bible for its wisdom; we must pray the Bible to comprehend its claim.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
— Abraham Lincoln
but let us judge not that we be not judged.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
— Abraham Lincoln
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln
With Malice Towards None
— Abraham Lincoln
Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.
— Abraham Lincoln
He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
— Abraham Lincoln