Humility Quotes by Richard Rohr

12 Humility quotes by Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr’s spiritual lens focuses sharply on humility, and these twelve observations invite readers to consider how modesty opens the path to deeper transformation.

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“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”

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“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”

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“True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.”

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“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.”

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“Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.”

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“And we must—absolutely must—maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations…

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“Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and…

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“The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found,…

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“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that…

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“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.”

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A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the…

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“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear…

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