Quotes by Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr (b. 1943) — Franziskanerpater und Autor · katholisch · Vereinigte Staaten

Richard Rohr (* 1943) ist ein US-amerikanischer römisch-katholischer Franziskanerpriester und Autor, der 1987 in Albuquerque das Center for Action and Contemplation gründete. Er steht für eine Verbindung von christlicher Mystik, Kontemplation und Psychologie sowie das Konzept des „universalen Christus“, stößt mit seinen Lehren und der Nutzung des Enneagramms jedoch auf anhaltende theologische Kritik von konservativen Katholiken und Evangelikalen. Bibellesern vermittelt er Impulse für eine integrative spirituelle Praxis und persönliche Reifung, fordert aber zur Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Abweichungen von traditionellen dogmatischen Auslegungen heraus.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Freedom & Truth, Suffering & the Question of God, Growth & Character, Guilt & Forgiveness, Grace & Redemption, Love

Quotes by Richard Rohr

God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.
Richard Rohr

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.
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.
Richard Rohr

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

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

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
Richard Rohr

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
Richard Rohr

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Richard Rohr

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
Richard Rohr

Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
Richard Rohr

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

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

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.
Richard Rohr

You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.
Richard Rohr

Religion is lived by people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.
Richard Rohr

How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.
Richard Rohr

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

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
Richard Rohr

Whoever wants to bring God under control through their actions will in the end feel extremely useless, powerless, and ineffective.
Richard Rohr

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
Richard Rohr

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then I must watch my reaction to it.
Richard Rohr

God for us, God alongside us, God within us.
Richard Rohr

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
Richard Rohr

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