Richard Rohr Quotes

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• Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

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  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

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• All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

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  Pain, Emotional, Spirituality

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• Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an established "religion" (and all that goes with that) and avoided the lifestyle change itself. One could be warlike, greedy, racist, selfish, and vain in most of Christian history, and still believe that Jesus is one's "personal Lord and Savior" . . . The world has no time for such silliness anymore. The suffering on Earth is too great.

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  Christian, Jesus, Selfish

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• If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

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  Love, Christian, Heart

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• Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

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  Love You, Ifs And, Empowering

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• All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .

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  Letting Go, Children, People

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  Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

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  Maturity, Imperfect World, A Perfect World

  Richard Rohr (1996). “Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections”, p.177, Gracewing Publishing

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  We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

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  Thinking, Way, Way Of Thinking

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.201, John Wiley & Sons

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• Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

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• Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.

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  Jesus, Risk, Worship

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• A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

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  Teacher, People, Good Teacher

  "Richard Rohr: Learning To See (VIDEO)". Interview with Travis Reed, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

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  Religious, Jesus, Simple

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• The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

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  Happiness, Responsibility, Journey

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  God comes to us disguised as our life.

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  Our Lives

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps”, p.15, SPCK

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• There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

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  Letting Go, Powerful, Party

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• The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

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  Common, One Liner

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• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

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  Inspiring, Disappointment, Growth

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• 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.

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  Compassion, Two, Great Love

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• God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

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  Religion, Too Much, Waste

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• When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

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  Mirrors, Way, Void

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• Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you're not sure you'll make it to second base. You've let go of one thing and haven't yet latched into another. Most of us choose the security of first base.

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  Faith, Letting Go, Space

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• Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

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  Pain, Transformed

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• Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

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  Song, Singing, Praise

  "Nature and the Soul" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2011.

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• Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Country

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• It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

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  Water, Grace, Pool

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