Quotes about Understanding

Her godfather was an English canon who had taught her about a God of love and compassion, a God who was mysterious and tremendous, but not to be understood as "two atoms of hydrogen plus one atom of oxygen make water" could be understood. A God who cared about all that had been created in love.

Love does not judge.

As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone.

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.