Quotes of: Greater-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

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The Complete Essays

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Sextus Propertius

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Anarchism and Other Essays

She is a treasure greater than anything else I have won.

The Alchemist

There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--

Inferno

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Nana

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

The Price of Creation

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

Peter Riegert

Prayer is like a business , the you put in more input the greater the output becomes.

Osunsakin Adewale

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

Rick Bayan

It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Gratitude is an excellent attitude which can lift you to a greater altitude if you put it on as a vesture.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah