Quotes by Richard Rohr

About Richard Rohr:

Richard Rohr, O.F.M. is a Franciscan friar ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. He is an internationally known inspirational speaker and has published numerous recorded talks and books, most recently Yes, And...: Daily Meditations, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, and Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi.
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Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards.

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Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some...

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...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

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...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

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We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' count...

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True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

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I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

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If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.

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You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

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Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying alo...

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It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

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If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of...

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You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

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The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

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His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always d...

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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

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Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

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Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

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You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

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When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

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We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Rohr
  • DescriptionAmerican spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
  • BornMarch 20, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPriest; Writer