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
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 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
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 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
People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just… — 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
“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
![“What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/842/richard-rohr-618_amish_what-i-wish-i-had-said-in-the-book-falli_2094548.jpg)
