Discipleship Quote by Richard Rohr Download Open image ““Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”” — Richard Rohr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discipleship Growth Humility Maturation Pain Suffering
“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are the precious… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Someone has inflicted the wounds and scars you now possess, but healing is left to you alone.” — RJ Intindola - - 1979 Copy Share Image
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.” — Lynn C. Tolson Copy Share Image
“I hope that you never destroy your whole self when parts of you are hurting.” — Stacey Lannert Copy Share Image
“Unwholesome action, hurting self, comes easily. Wholesome action, healing self, takes effort.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour 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 own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put in simple options, it is to be human and forgive, make peace in spite of all hatred, or to be in human and kill, dividing… — Megan McKenna Copy Share
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being "born again" but little time on "growing up" again. There is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image