God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“At times we have to step into God’s silence and patiently wait. We have to put out the fleece as Gideon did… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I am just like you. My immediate response to most situations is with reactions of attachment, defensiveness, judgment, control, and analysis. I… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
