The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why. — 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
“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
