Quotes from Fr. Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

The ego hates losing — even to God.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.