“Certain vocations, e.g., raising children, offer a perfect setting for living a contemplative life. They provide a desert for reflection, a real monastery. The mother who stays home with small children experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“The Church is always God hung between two thieves. Thus, no one should be surprised or shocked at how badly the church has betrayed… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“There is within us a fundamental dis-ease, an unquenchable fire that renders us incapable, in this life, of ever coming to full peace. This… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“If a child or a brother or a sister or a loved one of yours strays from the church in terms of faith practice… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also,… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
