Quotes about Understanding

Encouraging someone and speaking truth into someone's life when God asks you to do so are healthy and wonderful things—but it's never right to make a quick, dismissive judgment. Our judgments based on external appearances don't have all the information and wisdom that

Remember, God is not surprised by your faults. He knew about them before you did—and He loves you anyway!

to reason, to figure, and to be logical, rotating my mind around and around an issue until I am worn out and confused. I want to experience the peace of mind and heart that comes from trusting in God, not in my own human insight and understanding.

Words! book-words! what are you?

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

1. The first partner in the meeting is the text.

The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.