“Certain vocations, e.g., raising children, offer a perfect setting for living a contemplative life. They provide a desert for reflection, a real monastery. The mother who stays home with small children experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“The Church is always God hung between two thieves. Thus, no one should be surprised or shocked at how badly the church has betrayed the gospel and how much it continues to do so today. It had never done very well. Conversely, however, nobody should deny the good the church has done either. It has carried grace, produced saints, morally… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share
This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“There is within us a fundamental dis-ease, an unquenchable fire that renders us incapable, in this life, of ever coming to full peace. This… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“If a child or a brother or a sister or a loved one of yours strays from the church in terms of faith practice… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
