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I think humans prefer magical religion, which keeps all the responsibility on God performing or not performing, whereas mature and transformational religion asks us to participate, cooperate, and change. The divine dance is always a partnered two-step.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You might say that the Eternal Christ is the symbolic "superconductor" of the Divine Energies into this world. Jesus ramps down the ohms so we can handle divine love and receive it through ordinary human mediums.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Home is another word for the Spirit that we are, our True Self in God. The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God, and this is the full homecoming, according to Teresa of Avila.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God does not come uninvited. God and grace cannot enter without an opening from our side, or we would be mere robots. God does not want robots, but lovers who freely choose to love in return for love. And toward that supreme end, God seems quite willing to wait, cajole, and entice.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Anything is a sacrament if it serves as a shortcut to the Infinite, but it will always be hidden in something that is very finite.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit, "Invoked or not invoked, God is still present."*3
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Your DNA is divine, and the divine indwelling is never earned by any behavior or any ritual, but only recognized and realized (see Romans 11: 6; Ephesians 2: 8—10) and fallen in love with.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Remember, "God" is just a word for Reality—with a Face! And occasionally Interface (which some call "prayer" or "love").
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Does the Almighty One operate from a scarcity model of love and forgiveness?
— Fr. Richard Rohr