Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first… — 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
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be… — 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
“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
