Richard Rohr Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness.
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
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.
All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given - which is ourselves!
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.
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
Our temptation now and always is not to trust in God but to trust in our faith tradition of trusting in God.
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves - by themselves - and in themselves.
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
The people who know God well - mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator.
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It's not the gathering of the saved.
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God's very self.
We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.
You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.
The eyes with which you will look back at God will be the same eyes with which God first looked at you.
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.
Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.
The energy in the universe is not in the planets, or in the protons or neutrons, but in the relationship between them.
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
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.
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.
Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in - but only to be moved out from.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.
Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
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.