Quotes about Understanding
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
- CS Lewis
Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.
- Loren Cunningham
Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.
- Richard Paul Evans
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
- Thomas Merton
Reject hatred without hating.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
- Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
- John Henry Newman
I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.
- Catherine Marshall
Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
- William Paul Young
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
- Joyce Meyer