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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
— Richard Rohr
The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
— Richard Rohr
Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.
— Richard Rohr
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
— Richard Rohr
Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.
— Richard Rohr
The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
— Richard Rohr
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
— Richard Rohr
Before transformation, sin is any kind of moral mistake; afterward, sin is a mistake about who you are and whose you are.
— Richard Rohr
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
— Richard Rohr
The journey never happens alone.
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You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
— Richard Rohr
In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over.
— Richard Rohr
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.
— Richard Rohr
If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
— Richard Rohr
Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.
— Richard Rohr
Loving God, allow me to be a sheep at least once in a while, and never let me forget that most of my life I have been a goat.
— Richard Rohr
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
— Richard Rohr
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
— Richard Rohr
The ego knows itself by comparison.
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Our temptation now and always is not to trust in God but to trust in our faith tradition of trusting in God.
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The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves - by themselves - and in themselves.
— Richard Rohr
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
— Richard Rohr
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
— Richard Rohr
Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure.
— Richard Rohr
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
— Richard Rohr
Western people are a ritually starved people, and in this are different than most of human history.
— Richard Rohr
Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.
— Richard Rohr
The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself.
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The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.
— Richard Rohr
this preoccupation with order, control,
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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.
— Richard Rohr
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
— Richard Rohr
You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
— Richard Rohr
Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have - right now.
— Richard Rohr
Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.
— Richard Rohr
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
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Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.
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We used to say that hearing 90 percent of confessions was like being stoned to death with marshmallows!
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
— Richard Rohr
How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?
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It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.
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Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
— Richard Rohr
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.
— Richard Rohr
Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.
— Richard Rohr
You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moseses leading you on any exodus.
— Richard Rohr
Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in - but only to be moved out from.
— Richard Rohr
life seems to be a collision of opposites.
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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
— Richard Rohr
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
— Richard Rohr
Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.
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Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
— Richard Rohr
This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.
— Richard Rohr
I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.
— Richard Rohr
The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.
— Richard Rohr
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.
— Richard Rohr
Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them - all the way through!
— Richard Rohr
We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.
— Richard Rohr
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
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In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
— Richard Rohr
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
— Richard Rohr
God for us, God alongside us, God within us.
— Richard Rohr
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
— Richard Rohr
You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.
— Richard Rohr
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.
— Richard Rohr
Mutual perfect faith would be heaven!
— Richard Rohr
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
— Richard Rohr
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
— Richard Rohr
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
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Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.
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