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
“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
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
“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
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,… — 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
“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
Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When… — 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
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
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
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
![“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/i/d6a/richard-rohr-618_deeper_if-i-m-going-to-continue-to-be-any-kind_270254.png)
