Quotes about Understanding
The great commandment is not thou shalt be right. The great commandment is to be in love.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
pride. If there's too much "I know," it will lead to illusion and ignorance. Isn't that ironic? Jesus says, "The person who says 'I know,' is precisely the blind one" (John 9:41).
— Fr. Richard Rohr
And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
But it takes us much longer to discover "the task within the task," as I like to call it: what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To those who cling to Anselm's understanding, I would say, as J. B. Phillips wrote many years ago, "Your God is too small.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We were largely taught what to believe instead of how to believe.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry louder in his ears than your sins.
— Richard Sibbes
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
— Rick Warren
Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.
— Rick Warren