Quotes by Ronald Rolheiser

Ronald Rolheiser (b. 1947) — Katholischer Priester (Oblaten), Autor · Katholisch · Kanada

Ronald Rolheiser (* 1947) ist ein kanadischer römisch-katholischer Ordenspriester, Theologe und ehemaliger Präsident der Oblate School of Theology in Texas. Er wurde durch spirituelle Bücher und weltweite Kolumnen bekannt, in denen er christliche Mystik mit psychologischen und existenziellen Fragen verbindet, während konservative Kritiker ihm eine teils zu weitgehende Anpassung an den säkularen Zeitgeist vorwerfen. Für Bibelleser erschließt er theologische Grundfragen seelsorgerlich mit einem Schwerpunkt auf menschlicher Sehnsucht, Scheitern und göttlicher Barmherzigkeit.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Love, Grace & Redemption, Suffering & the Question of God, Grief & Comfort, Guilt & Forgiveness, Time & Transience, Illness & Weakness

Quotes by Ronald Rolheiser

God has a special, preferential love for the weak, for those not strong enough to stand, for those who have collapsed under the burdens of life.

Ronald Rolheiser

God does not abandon us, particularly when, crushed in body and spirit, we give up on God.

Ronald Rolheiser

There is no hell, no collapse of soul, no despair into which Christ cannot penetrate and breathe out peace.

Ronald Rolheiser

We can still talk to those who have died, and we can, even now, say the words of love, forgiveness, gratitude, and regret that ideally should have been spoken earlier.

Ronald Rolheiser

We still have a chance to fix the things, after death, that we were powerless to mend before death took a loved one away.

Ronald Rolheiser

God's mercy, as Jesus revealed it, embraces indiscriminately, the bad and the good, the undeserving and the deserving.

Ronald Rolheiser

The mercy of God, like the light and warmth of the sun, cannot not go out to everyone.

Ronald Rolheiser

The rhythm of the ordinary is, in the end, the deepest wellspring from which to draw joy and meaning.

Ronald Rolheiser

Only after it has been taken away and then given back, do we realize that the clean, simple appreciation of daily things is the ultimate treasure.

Ronald Rolheiser

What's best in us understands human weakness and the anatomy of a collapse of soul.

Ronald Rolheiser

The deeper reason Jesus chose to accept suffering as he did was to be in full solidarity with us, in all our pain and humiliation.

Ronald Rolheiser

He didn't just touch human life, he entered it completely, including the depth of human pain.

Ronald Rolheiser

Death washes clean. It clarifies perspective and takes away a lot of relational tensions.

Ronald Rolheiser

If we tie God's mercy to our own timidity and fear, we limit it to the size of our own minds.

Ronald Rolheiser

Rarely do people die without any unfinished business.

Ronald Rolheiser

Suffering is complex and ambiguous.

Ronald Rolheiser

Sources: thepastorsworkshop.com, wikipedia.org, day1.org, commonwealmagazine.org

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