Quotes about Reflection
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God brings us—through failure—from unconsciousness to ever-deeper consciousness and conscience.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything. After these smaller deaths, we know that the only "deadly sin" is to swim on the surface of things, where we never see, find, or desire God and love.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
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.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We always become what we behold; the presence that we practice matters.
— Fr. Richard Rohr