Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level. — 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
People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a… — 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
True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as… — 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
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get… — 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
![“What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/842/richard-rohr-618_amish_what-i-wish-i-had-said-in-the-book-falli_2094548.jpg)
