I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
