Quotes about Understanding

I understood the whole purpose of Truth and Reconciliation, and I supported it 100 per cent, but I couldn't deal with it myself.

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

I prefer to heed the wise words of Booker T. Washington: I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.