Richard Rohr Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Prayer, Willing

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps”, p.41, SPCK

• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

• 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.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

• Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Eye, Judging

  "Richard Rohr on Praying like St. Francis". St. Anthony Messenger interview, www.franciscanmedia.org.

• If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Prayer

• In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Strong, Prayer

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

• Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Mature

• Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Heart, Grace And Mercy

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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