Wrestling with God Quotes

“But we must trust that God understands our humanity: God doesn’t demand that we give him our conscious attention all of the time. God accepts the natural wanderings of our hearts. God accepts our tiredness and fatigue. God accepts our need for distraction and escape. God accepts that we usually find it easier to immerse ourselves in entertainment than to pray. And God even accepts our resistance to him and our need to assert, with pride, our own independence. Like a loving mother embracing a child who’s kicking and screaming but needs to be picked up and held, God can handle our anger, self-pity, and resistance. God understands our humanity, but we struggle to understand what it means to be human before God.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human

“Hope isn’t a wish or a mood; it is a perspective on life that needs to be grounded on a sufficient reality. What is that sufficient reality?”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human

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― Ronald Rolheiser, Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human

“Like a loving mother embracing a child who’s kicking and screaming but needs to be picked up and held, God can handle our anger, self-pity, and resistance. God understands our humanity, but we struggle to understand what it means to be human before God.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human