Life Quotes by Richard Rohr

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

— Richard Rohr

“Most of us tend to think of the second half of life”

— Richard Rohr

“How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.”

— Richard Rohr

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

— Richard Rohr

God comes to us disguised as our life.

— Richard Rohr

“The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to…

— Richard Rohr

“you never think yourself into a new way of living. You invariably live yourself into a new way of thinking.”

— Richard Rohr

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

— 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 know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward,…

— Richard Rohr

“The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.”

— 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

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

— Richard Rohr

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This…

— Richard Rohr

“Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold…

— Richard Rohr

Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,…

— Richard Rohr

The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to…

— Richard Rohr

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling…

— Richard Rohr

“The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the…

— Richard Rohr

“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery…

— Richard Rohr

“Let me sum it up this way: We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into…

— Richard Rohr

Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true…

— Richard Rohr

“But when we have too much “I,” with too much “I have a right to,” then we necessarily move to a life…

— Richard Rohr

“Our Living School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is trying to reintroduce the West to what we call the Perennial Tradition, the underground…

— Richard Rohr

“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in…

— Richard Rohr

“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is…

— Richard Rohr

“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and…

— Richard Rohr

“Maybe even sadder is the willingness to give your whole life producing items of no social benefit, or even destructive, like slot…

— Richard Rohr

What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first…

— Richard Rohr

“Your False Self is who you think you are. Your thinking does not make it true. Your False Self is almost entirely…

— Richard Rohr

“It has taken me much of my life to begin to get to the second gaze. By nature I have a critical…

— Richard Rohr

“Until we walk with despair, and still have hope, we will not know that our hope was not just hope in ourselves,…

— Richard Rohr

“If we lived forever, they say, we would never take life seriously or learn to love what it.”

— Richard Rohr

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself,…

— Richard Rohr

“We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.”

— Richard Rohr

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

— Richard Rohr

“Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.”

— Richard rohr

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can…

— Richard Rohr

“Once you can get “out of the house,” your “castle” and comfort zone, much of the journey has a life—and death—of its…

— Richard Rohr

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than…

— Richard Rohr