Richard Rohr: Quotes about thinking

Richard Rohr is American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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“So much is happening on earth that cannot be fixed or explained, but it can be felt and suffered. I think a Christian is one who, along with Jesus, agrees to feel, to suffer the pain of the world.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 129

Pain , World , Feeling , Thinking

“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”

Richard Rohr

Variant: Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Thinking , Learning

“Group-think is a substitute for God-think. The belief is that God is found only by our group. The next step is to establish that identification with our group as the only way to serve God.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 82

God , Way , Thinking

“What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important. Too often people think it is necessary that we all see God in the same way (which is impossible anyway), but what is really necessary is that we all follow God according to what God tells us. The fact that God has given us so many different faces and temperaments and emotions and histories shows us how God honors each unique journey and culture. God is not threatened by differences. It’s we who are.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 110

God , People , Way , History

“Religion has not tended to create seekers or searchers, has not tended to create honest, humble people who trust that God is always beyond them. We aren’t focused on the great mystery. Religion has, rather, tended to create people who think they have God in their pockets, people with quick, easy, glib answers. That’s why so much of the West is understandably abandoning religion. People know the great mystery cannot be that simple and facile.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 33

God , People , Religion , Understanding