When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life… — 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
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation… — 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
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
There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has… — 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
“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
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
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
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
![“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/i/842/richard-rohr-618_amish_what-i-wish-i-had-said-in-the-book-falli_2094548.png)