Quotes by Understanding I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us. Josh McDowell understandingreligiousdesire Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience. Joshua L. Liebman inner-peaceunderstandingself Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life. Joseph Campbell understandingplayyears You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment. Joyce DiDonato understandingeyeheart Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding. Jostein Gaarder life-is-shortone-dayunderstanding Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art. Joshua Reynolds understandingcommonart When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. Joseph Campbell mythologyunderstandingmind It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. Joshua Reynolds understandingtakenhands When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things. Jostein Gaarder understandingpathphilosophy But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort. Jostein Gaarder effortcostunderstanding The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. Josh Billings forgivenessunderstandingsecret Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus. Judah Smith understandingpeoplejesus I can always forgive where I understand. Jude Morgan forgivingi-canunderstanding I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing. Joss Whedon understandingcleverwriting We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem. Judith Butler politicalunderstandingclass Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind. Judith Butler understandingrightsmean Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. Juhani Pallasmaa understandingmeaningfulworld It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. Judith Butler moralsourceunderstanding I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God. Joyce Meyer growthunderstandingspiritual The less I understand life, the more I live it! Jules Renard human-natureunderstanding«8889909192939495969798»
