People Quotes by Richard Rohr

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

— Richard Rohr

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

— Richard Rohr

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

— Richard Rohr

Transformed people transform people.

— Richard Rohr

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

— Richard Rohr

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

— Richard Rohr

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

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

— Richard Rohr

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control…

— Richard Rohr

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life…

— Richard Rohr

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

— Richard Rohr

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

— Richard Rohr

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

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations,…

— Richard Rohr

We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to…

— Richard Rohr

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life…

— Richard Rohr

In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led…

— Richard Rohr

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

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

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling…

— Richard Rohr

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order,…

— Richard Rohr

True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological…

— Richard Rohr

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come…

— Richard Rohr

If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a…

— Richard Rohr

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them…

— Richard Rohr

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

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

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

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

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

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries…

— Richard Rohr

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who…

— Richard Rohr

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

What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as…

— Richard Rohr

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends,…

— Richard Rohr

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,…

— Richard Rohr

People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the…

— Richard Rohr

Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When…

— Richard Rohr

Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better…

— Richard Rohr

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think…

— Richard Rohr