Quotes about Spirituality
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
Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Holiness has to do with who we are in God, where we abide as a "self" with an utterly reconstituted sense of our own personhood.
— 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
As Simone Weil said in various ways, it is much easier to make non-Christians into Christians than it is to make Christians into Christians. Cradle Christians are almost totally preconditioned to the carrot-on-the-stick model.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If something comes toward you with grace and can pass through you toward others with grace, you can trust it as the voice of God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Ken Wilber described the later stages of life well when he said that the classic spiritual journey always begins elitist and ends egalitarian. Always!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
He does not know the outcome ahead of time, or his confidence would be in himself and God to pull it off, which would then largely be a matter of the willpower of belief. Faith is so much more than strong willpower
— Fr. Richard Rohr
he just tells him to "descend" from his power position, "go away and get rid of all your possessions." Money is only the metaphor here; the real possession he has to get rid of is his ego.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
15:9). Big Truth is intended to deeply change the seer himself or herself, or it is not Big Truth—or truth at all. Some form of contemplative practice is the key to this larger seeing and this larger knowing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We would have helped history and individuals so much more if we had spent our time revealing how Christ is everywhere instead of proving that Jesus was God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr