552 Quotes by Richard Rohr

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.

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.

If we lived forever, they say, we would never take life seriously or learn to love what it.

The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".