The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey… — 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
“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery… — 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
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized… — 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
The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We have… — 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
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If there is no list of names in eternity, we are burdened with making our own personal name day after day. Either… — 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
“It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire… — 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… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling… — 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
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The hope is that science gives us objective truth; religion, however, gives us personal meaning or personal truth. They should not be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is… — 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
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The Risen Christ is the standing icon of humanity in its final and full destiny. He is the pledge and guarantee of… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just… — 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
