It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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.
