We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through! — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have… — 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
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
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening… — 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… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic… — 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
If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 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
