Quotes about Understanding
I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
— Sean Covey
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.
— Alain de Botton
By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.
— Peter Scazzero
Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
— Peter Scazzero
God has revealed himself to us in his Son, Scripture, creation, and other ways, but so much of who he is remains incomprehensible.
— Peter Scazzero
The wise are known for their few words.
— Peter Scazzero
Part of that likeness is to feel.
— Peter Scazzero
The issue is not, by any means, to blindly follow our feelings, but to acknowledge them as a part of the way God communicates to us.
— Peter Scazzero
The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.
— Peter Scazzero
I may not agree with you or you with me. Yet I can remain in relationship with you. I don't have to detach from you, reject you, avoid you, or criticize you to validate myself. I can be myself apart from you.
— Peter Scazzero
No one cares how much we know unless they also know how much we care.
— Philip Graham Ryken
Kindness is wisdom.
— Philip James Bailey