Thomas Abbott

St. Bonaventure and others said that a poor uneducated person might well know and love God more than a great theologian or ecclesastic.

You do not resolve the God question in your head - or even in the perfection of moral response. It is resolved in you when you agree to bear the mystery of God: God’s suffering for the world and God’s ecstasy in the world.

Agreeing to this task is much harder, I’m afraid, than just trying to be ‘good’.

• Fr. Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs