Quotes from Fr. Richard Rohr
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It's the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don't feel the need to eliminate anybody.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo — even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
- Fr. Richard Rohr