Understanding Quotes

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We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the… — Martin Luther
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you… — Nhat Hanh
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and… — Ken Wilber
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as… — Marianne Williamson
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive. — Benjamin Hoff
Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we… — Lewis B. Smedes
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word. — Matthew Henry
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror… — William Jones
A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we… — Lorenzo Snow
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency… — Carl Jung
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. — Unknown Author
You are all adding to each other's unhappiness; you are all helping each other to be more unhappy. Every single man has many people behind… — Rajneesh
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to… — Walter Benjamin
You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the… — Rajneesh
Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing… — Rajneesh
We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves. — Julian Fellowes
Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system… — Unknown Author
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts… — George Gillespie
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. — Laozi

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