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Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.
— 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
Our unveiled gaze receives and reflects the brightness of God until we are gradually turned into the image that we reflect. —2 Corinthians 3:18
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.
— 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
Francis "without having a specific feminist program…contributed to the feminizing of Christianity."2 French historian André Vauchez, in his critical biography of Francis, adds that this integration of the feminine "constitutes a fundamental turning point in the history of Western spirituality."3
— Fr. Richard Rohr
reality itself, our reality, my limited and sometimes misinterpreted experience, still becomes the revelatory place for God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Christians, you are Christ…for there is but One Son of God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we must have three spaces opened within us—and all at the same time: our opinionated head, our closed-down heart, and our defensive and defended body. That is the work of spirituality—and it is work.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Authentic God experience always expands your seeing and never constricts it. What else would be worthy of God? In God you do not include less and less; you always see and love more and more. The more you transcend your small ego, the more you can include.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Jesus puts healed people back on themselves, never creating any kind of dependency or codependency on him that will keep them from their own empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives them the courage to trust their own "inner Christ"—and not just its outer manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!
— Fr. Richard Rohr