"Education, both
secular and religious, has for many years given people easy answers to
questions they weren’t even asking. People accept the answers too
quickly, and those answers sink in about an inch deep. To make matters
worse, some of those shallow answers become the truths that people spout for
the rest of their lives. This kind of easily won knowledge can pass away
as quickly as it came. Why is this? It is knowledge we did not
thirst for or long for.
Sometimes we use the easy
answers to avoid the real questions. Because we know the answer already,
we stop searching. We sit down and remain stationary rather than stepping
into the difficult journey of hard-won faith."
On the Threshold of Transformation by Richard Rohr.
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