Quotes about Understanding

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

She looked at a microscope and saw a creator God. Chad looked at a microscope and saw man's scientific advances.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.