Quotes from Fr. Richard Rohr
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
- Fr. Richard Rohr