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"It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you."
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"If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering."

"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."

"You misinterpret everything, even the silence."

"Love has no meaning without understanding."

"There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody, the patience and impatience of the person!"

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."

"It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position."

"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."

"God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time."
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"It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you."
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