Richard Rohr Quotes About Transformation

Quotes about: Transformation

• 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.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

• 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.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Growth

• Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Country, Attitude

• The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

  Richard Rohr

  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

• Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Needs, Levels

• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Thinking

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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