Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“Try to say that: “I don't know anything”. We used to call it “tabula rasa” in Latin. Maybe you could think of… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — 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
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. — 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
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as… — 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
“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
“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
