Way Quotes by Richard Rohr

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

— Richard Rohr

As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again…

— Richard Rohr

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

— Richard Rohr

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

In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then…

— Richard Rohr

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic…

— Richard Rohr

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening…

— Richard Rohr

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the…

— Richard Rohr

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have…

— Richard Rohr

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense…

— Richard Rohr

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This…

— Richard Rohr

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come…

— Richard Rohr

We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called…

— Richard Rohr

If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be…

— Richard Rohr

Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made…

— Richard Rohr

If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters…

— Richard Rohr

Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it…

— Richard Rohr

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's…

— Richard Rohr