After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,… — 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.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in… — 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
