Richard Rohr

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

— Richard Rohr

“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,…

— Richard Rohr

“Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people…

— Richard Rohr

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,…

— Richard Rohr

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

— Richard Rohr

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not…

— 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

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is…

— Richard Rohr

“Men as a class appear to be "at risk," maybe even at high risk.”

— Richard Rohr

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation…

— Richard Rohr

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

— Richard Rohr

“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long…

— Richard Rohr

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

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

— Richard Rohr

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

Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true…

— Richard Rohr

“It is strange that when people have so much, they are so anxious about not having enough—to do, to see, to own,…

— Richard Rohr

“Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.”

— Richard Rohr

“True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.”

— Richard Rohr

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

— Richard Rohr

“With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence…

— 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

“this preoccupation with order, control,”

— Richard Rohr

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on…

— Richard Rohr

Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky,…

— Richard Rohr