Richard Rohr

“God can most easily be lost by being thought found.”

— Richard Rohr

Transformed people transform people.

— Richard Rohr

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

— Richard Rohr

God comes to us disguised as our life.

— Richard Rohr

“God for us, God alongside us, God within us.”

— 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 am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

— Richard Rohr

“Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.”

— Richard Rohr

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

— Richard Rohr

“The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.”

— Richard Rohr

“Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.”

— Richard Rohr

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

— Richard Rohr

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

— Richard Rohr

“Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and…

— Richard Rohr

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and…

— Richard Rohr

“And we must—absolutely must—maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations…

— 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

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to…

— 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

In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led…

— Richard Rohr

“Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the…

— Richard Rohr

“Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is…

— Richard Rohr

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,…

— Richard Rohr

I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary…

— 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

Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between…

— Richard Rohr

“Contemplation, sadly, helps you see your woundedness! That’s why most people do not stay long with contemplative prayer, because it’s not very…

— Richard Rohr

“Jesus is not telling us to believe unbelievable things, as if that would somehow please God. He is much more saying to…

— Richard Rohr

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the…

— Richard Rohr

“I’m sure that this is equally true of men in the business world or any world. We all need someone with inner…

— Richard Rohr

“The world, the system, moves forward out of fear. That’s why it has to threaten us to make us play the game.…

— Richard Rohr

“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole…

— Richard Rohr

“When we lose the contemplative mind, or non-dual consciousness, we invariably create violent people. The dualistic mind is endlessly argumentative, and we…

— Richard Rohr

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them…

— Richard Rohr

“There were clear statements in the New Testament about a cosmic meaning to Christ (Colossians 1, Ephesians 1, John 1, 1 John…

— Richard Rohr

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order,…

— Richard Rohr

“God has to undo our illusions secretly, as it were, when we are not watching and not in perfect control, say the…

— Richard Rohr

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

— Richard Rohr

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

— Richard Rohr

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

— Richard Rohr