Quotes about Unity
Hope cannot be had by the individual if everything is corporately hopeless. It is hard to heal individuals when the whole thing is seen as unhealable.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Christ forever keeps Jesus firmly inside the Trinity, not a mere later add-on or a somewhat arbitrary incarnation. Trinitarianism keeps God as Relationship Itself from the very beginning, and not a mere monarch.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Christ can hold together everything. In fact, Christ already does this; it is we who resist such wholeness, as if we enjoy our arguments and our divisions into parts.
— 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
How can anyone read the whole or even a small part of John 17 and think either Christ or Jesus is about anything other than unity and union? "Father, may they all be one," Christ says in verse 21, repeating this same desire and intention in many ways in the full prayer. I suspect God gets what God prays for!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
What if Christ is another name for everything—in its fullness?
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Christians, you are Christ…for there is but One Son of God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When you look at any other person, a flower, a honeybee, a mountain—anything—you are seeing the incarnation of God's love for you and the universe you call home.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The Universal Christ is trying to communicate at the deepest intuitive level that there is only One Life, One Death, and One Suffering on this earth. We are all invited to ride the one wave, which is the only wave there is. Call it Reality, if you wish. But we are all in this together.
— Fr. Richard Rohr