Quotes of: Complete-understanding Keyword

Of the good we have an understanding, for fools we keep a stick upstairs.

Mongolian

Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re not at its mercy. When you...

A Gradual Awakening

It is not possible to understand the NT concept of the church if we overlook the numerous metaphors used to portray it. The church is Christ's body, a temple, a family, a royal priesthood, twelve tribes, the chosen race, Abraham's children, the new c...

How To Understand the Bible

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other...

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why m...

The Quiet American

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing ...

Rachel Carson

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know wh...

Kevin DeYoung

Charlie: Does Raymond know how much money he's inherited? Dr. Bruner: No, he doesn't understand the concept of money. Charlie: He doesn't understand the concept of money? He just inherited $3,000,000 and he doesn't understand the concept of money? Wo...

Rain Man

Doyle: Believe in the Bible, do ya Karl? Karl: I don't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it. Doyle: Well I can't understand none of it. This one begat that one and that one begat this one, and lo and behold someone says s...

Sling Blade

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Christopher Walken

My features are completely ethnic.

Naomi Campbell

Everyone's journey is completely different.

Jeremy Piven

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

Iyanla Vanzant

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

Coma House

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

John Rhys-Davies

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

...There's a lot I don't understand...but not understanding is better not believing" - Ambrose

Making Faces

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

Leaves of Grass

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Paul Cezanne

Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.

Rob Liano