The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The saint is precisely one who has no “I” to protect or project. His or her “I” is in conscious union with… — 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
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not… — 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
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Remember, the only thing that separates you from God is the thought that you are separate from God!” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to… — 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
