Quotes about Journey
True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Death is largely a threat to those who have not yet lived their life. Odysseus has lived the journeys of both halves of life, and is ready to freely and finally let go.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process. Until we are led to the limits of our present game plan and find it insufficient, we will not search out or find the real source, the deep well, or the constantly flowing stream.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr