Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg up —an answer
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
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