552 Quotes by Richard Rohr

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

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.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking" (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, "with me" or "against me," and most of the time you'll be wrong.

Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don’t have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You’re trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.