Quotes about Understanding
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Francis's starting place was human suffering instead of human sinfulness
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God can most easily be lost by being thought found.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
All theologies are blasphemous in so far as they attempt to reduce God to something that can be known through the understanding by which we know other things.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Mystery is not something that you cannot understand, but it is something that is endlessly understandable! It is multilayered and pregnant with meaning and never totally admits to closure or resolution.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We do not really know what it means to be human unless we know God. And, in turn, we do not really know God except through our own broken and rejoicing humanity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most
— Fr. Richard Rohr