Beth Moore Quotes

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

I try to speak from a place of understanding and most times I'm speaking from a place of experience.

I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that we need to hear.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

We want to help the players be more comfortable in their own skin, a bit braver, a bit more aware and more understanding of each other.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.