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Richard Rohr Quote: “Bonaventure’s theology is never about trying to placate a distant or angry God, earn forgiveness, or find some abstract theory of justification. He is all cosmic optimism and hope! Once it lost this kind of mysticism, Christianity became preoccupied with fear, unworthiness, and guilt much more than being included in – and delighting in – an all-pervasive plan that is already in place.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “When we can see the image of God where we don’t want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Surrender will always feel like dying, and yet it is the necessary path to liberation.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Everything you have ever seen with your eyes is the self-emptying of God into multitudinous physical and visible forms. In other words, Infinity is forever limiting itself into finite expressions, and this could even be called the “suffering” of God. The Christ learned this self-emptying, or kenosis, 183 from his eternal life in the Trinity. It is not just Jesus who suffers, but the cross is the visible symbol of what is always going on inside of God!”
Richard Rohr Quote: “We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “By the age of seven, almost all of us have separated our body and our soul from our mind, and we give all of our credence to our mind, disconnected from our bodies, disconnected from our souls, which abide and grow more in silence. Descartes.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have – right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life. It will sound an awful lot like the voices of risk, of trust, of surrender, of soul, of “common sense,” of destiny, of love, of an intimate stranger, of your deepest self, of soulful “Beatrice.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Humans are creators of meaning, and finding deep meaning in our experiences is not just another name for spirituality but is also the very shape of human happiness.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?”
Richard Rohr Quote: “And we must – absolutely must – maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations and never God.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, “Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “This new world order is based on the experience of a God who is experienced personally. Jesus seems to be saying that God is not a philosophical system, a theory to be proven or an energy to be discussed or controlled, although we have often reduced God to such. Jesus believes that God is a Person to be imitated, enjoyed and loved.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “It is the struggle with darkness and grief that educates the male soul.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past.” It is what it is, and such acceptance leads to great freedom, as long as there is also accountability and healing in the process.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Christians affirm the communion of saints in the Nicene Creed, but I think there should be an equal belief in the “communion of sinners.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Remember this: pure literalism always leads to a decrease in meaning. Mythology and sacred texts try to lead us and allow us to have the experience for ourselves. Through our experience we discover that encounter is not only possible but desirable. So often we struggle with experiencing our experiences.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both “a lever and a place to stand” before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Human strength is defined in asserting boundaries. God, it seems, is in the business of dissolving boundaries. So we enter into paradox – what’s Three is one and what’s One is three. We just can’t resolve that, and so we confuse unity with uniformity.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “You rest in God, not in outcomes.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity but to change the mind of humanity about God. It is “simple and beautiful;” as Einstein said great truth would always have to be.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “To pray is to build your own house. To pray is to discover that Someone else is within your house. To pray is to recognize that it is not your house at all.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God’s love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!”
Richard Rohr Quote: “God oft-times doesn’t give a lot of answers but just keeps telling us who we are. God just keeps inviting us into that place where love is alive and where God is in love.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection! There’s no other way to live: You either incorporate imperfection, or you fall into denial. That’s how the Spirit moves in or out of our lives. – from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “As Dorothy Day once wisely said, “What the Gospel forever takes away from Christians is the right to judge between the worthy and the unworthy poor.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “God resists our evil and conquers it with good, or how could God ask the same of us?! Think about that. God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure. Love is not love unless it is totally free. Grace is not grace unless it is totally free. You would think Christian people would know that by now, but it is still a secret of the soul.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “At best, the theory of substitutionary atonement has inoculated us against the true effects of the Gospel, causing us to largely “thank” Jesus instead of honestly imitating him. At worst, it led us to see God as a cold, brutal figure, who demands acts of violence before God can love his own creation.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “God seems to have chosen to manifest the invisible in what we call the “visible,” so that all things visible are the revelation of God’s endlessly diffusive spiritual energy. Once a person recognizes that, it is hard to ever be lonely in this world again.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “The anger and mutual disrespect that I find among both conservative and progressive Christians today is really quite disturbing. It feels aligned much more with political ideologies of Right and Left than any immersion in the beautiful love of God. Jihadism and Zionism have become the death knell of any remaining beauty in religion for many sincere seekers all over the world. It is all so sad that we could regress so far in the name of God, who wants only to lead us forward.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “The energy in the universe is not in the planets, or in the protons or neutrons, but in the relationship between them.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “If your prayer is not enticing you outside your comfort zones, if your Christ is not an occasional “threat,” you probably need to do some growing up and learning to love.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Genuine humility is based on a realistic self-appraisal and a healthy feeling of self-worth.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “God did not just start talking to us with the Bible or the church or the prophets. Do we really think that God had nothing at all to say for 13.7 billion years, and started speaking only in the latest nanosecond of geological time? Did all history prior to our sacred texts provide no basis for truth or authority? Of course not. The radiance of the Divine Presence has been glowing and expanding since the beginning of time, before there were any human eyes to see or know about it.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “I believe that there are two necessary paths enabling us to move toward wisdom: a radical journey inward and a radical journey outward. For.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved.”
Richard Rohr Quote: “You do need some successes as a young person. They don’t inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don’t construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won’t get you anywhere.”
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