The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can… — 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
“How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Their self-image was based on mere psychological information instead of theological truth. What the Gospel promises us is that we are objectively… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The feminine insight is a rediscovery of Jesus’ spirit, a reemergence of a well-suppressed truth, an eventual political upheaval, a certain reform… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to… — 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
“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
