Quotes about Acceptance
The joyful acceptance of a limited world, of which I am only a small moment and limited part—this is probably the clearest indication of a man in his fullness.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The great commandment is not thou shalt be right. The great commandment is to be in love.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The more that we can put together, the more that we can "forgive" and allow, the more we can include and enjoy, the more we tend to be living in the Spirit.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When the self is surrendered—when we're not too tied to our own agenda, anger, fear, or desire to make things happen our way—we are truly open to love. But be aware of the heart's propensity to clench and close.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Jesus touched and healed anybody who desired it and asked for it, and there were no other prerequisites for his healings.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It takes uncommon humility to carry both the dark and the light side of things. The only true perfection available to humans is the honest acceptance of our imperfection.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We are driven, kicking and screaming, toward ever higher levels of union and ability to include (to forgive others for being "other"), it seems to me. "Everything that rises must converge," as Teilhard de Chardin put it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can forgive the outer world only if and when you have first forgiven your own inner world.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets
— Fr. Richard Rohr
True religion is always a deep intuition that we are already participating in something very good, in spite of our best efforts to deny it or avoid it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr