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Nature Quotes by Richard Rohr

16 Nature quotes by Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr invites readers to see nature as a living classroom for the soul. In 16 concise reflections he balances contemplative depth with accessible language, making this a gentle entry point for those seeking spiritual resonance in the outdoors.

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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

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The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told…

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Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we,…

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If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on…

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We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called…

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To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was…

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Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any…

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If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there…

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“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…

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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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This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and…

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We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's…

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“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long…

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“Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love…

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“We cannot make God love us more, and we cannot make God love us less. We do not have that kind of…

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“It has taken me much of my life to begin to get to the second gaze. By nature I have a critical…

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“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.”

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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

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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,…

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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

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You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

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“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.…

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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those…

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“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and…

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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

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“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it…

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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…

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