Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. — 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
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object. — 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
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
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so… — 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
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
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Love is not something you do; love is someone you are. It is your True Self.8 Love is where you came from… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to fall in love with majesty, power, or perfection. These make us fearful and codependent, but seldom truly… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We cannot make God love us more, and we cannot make God love us less. We do not have that kind of… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — 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
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there… — 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
