It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“And we must—absolutely must—maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations… — 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
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. — 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
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a… — 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
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out… — 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
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot… — 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
“In this book I would like to describe how this message of falling down and moving up is, in fact, the most… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that this is equally true of men in the business world or any world. We all need someone with inner… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The Sunday service alone seldom leads people on deeper or even real journeys; we must begin to be honest about this. All… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us - and all at the same… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Religion knew the truth of metaphor and symbol for almost all of history until the past few hundred years, and especially until… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton said it was actually dangerous to put the Scriptures in the hands of people whose inner self is not yet… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the… — 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
![“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6a/richard-rohr-618_deeper_if-i-m-going-to-continue-to-be-any-kind_270254.jpg)
