{"id":8988,"date":"2021-03-17T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2021-03-17T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:44:29","slug":"love-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8988","title":{"rendered":"Love and Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-27.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-27-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-27-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the practical order of life, <em>if we have never loved deeply or suffered deeply, we are unable to understand spiritual things at any depth.<\/em>  Any healthy and &#8220;true&#8221; religion is teaching you how to deal with suffering and how to deal with love.  And if you allow this process with sincerity, you will soon recognize that it is actually love and suffering that are dealing with you.  Like nothing else can!  <em>Even God has to use love and suffering to teach you all the lessons that really matter.  They are his primary tools for human transformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/universal_christ.html\">The Universal Christ<\/a><\/em>, p. 207<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Dunluce Castle, Ireland, July 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the practical order of life, if we have never loved deeply or suffered deeply, we are unable to understand spiritual things at any depth. Any healthy and &#8220;true&#8221; religion is teaching you how to deal with suffering and how to deal with love. And if you allow this process with sincerity, you will soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life","category-love","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8990,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}