Quotes about Understanding

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.