Quotes from Richard Rohr

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.

If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

It's the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don't feel the need to eliminate anybody.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

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.

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

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.