Quotes about Acceptance
In this negative frame, the quickest ticket to heaven, enlightenment, or salvation is "unworthiness" itself, or at least a willingness to face our own smallness and incapacity.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God, however, forgives even immature religion, and those who know God learn to do the same.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God's love is perfectly free. It is not coerced by any of our good actions, nor can we lose it because of our bad actions. We are stuck with it and cannot increase-or decrease-God's love for us by anything we do or don't do.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Faith is simply to trust the real, and to trust that God is found within it—even before we change it. This is perhaps our major stumbling stone
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The joyful acceptance of a limited world, of which I am only a small moment and limited part—this is probably the clearest indication of a man in his fullness.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The great commandment is not thou shalt be right. The great commandment is to be in love.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
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
When the self is surrendered—when we're not too tied to our own agenda, anger, fear, or desire to make things happen our way—we are truly open to love. But be aware of the heart's propensity to clench and close.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.
- 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
It takes uncommon humility to carry both the dark and the light side of things. The only true perfection available to humans is the honest acceptance of our imperfection.
- Fr. Richard Rohr