A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and… — 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
