Understood Quotes
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Pablo Picasso
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Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another “movement”: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world.
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David Bosch
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My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'Brien
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
Victor Wooten
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.
Betsy Lerner
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
Flannery O'Connor
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We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
Richard Selzer
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
Sarah Dessen
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster
