The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being...
A lot of stuff that I thought was faith was nothing more than unquestioned assumptions and what I was used to.
We are entering a period of reformation in which the old understandings and assumptions about church are dying, and new, Spirit-led visions of church are emerging. from Where There is No Road at All
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. from Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs
My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.