Quotes about Salvation
We Christians did not take this world seriously, I am afraid, because our notion of God or salvation didn't include or honor the physical universe.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Do not be shocked, but I suspect some priests' and ministers' moral failures are actually very helpful to their own "salvation" and necessary for their growing up.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The full Christian story is saying that Jesus died, and Christ "arose"—yes, still as Jesus, but now also as the Corporate Personality who includes and reveals all of creation in its full purpose and goal.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Christ is God, and Jesus is the Christ's historical manifestation in time. Jesus is a Third Someone, not just God and not just man, but God and human together.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Once a person recognizes that Jesus's mission (obvious in all four Gospels) was to heal people, not punish them, the dominant theories of retributive justice begin to lose their appeal and their authority.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will
— Fr. Richard Rohr
unlearning, letting go, surrendering, serving others, and not the language of self-development—which often lurks behind our popular notions of "salvation.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Our faith became a competitive theology with various parochial theories of salvation, instead of a universal cosmology inside of which all can live with an inherent dignity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God protects us into and through death, just as the Father did with Jesus.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In this negative frame, the quickest ticket to heaven, enlightenment, or salvation is "unworthiness" itself, or at least a willingness to face our own smallness and incapacity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr