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 Copy Share Image
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — 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
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The significance of Jesus’ wounded body is his deliberate and conscious holding of the pain of the world and refusing to send… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority… — 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
Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that… — 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 Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
