552 Quotes by Richard Rohr

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

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

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

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.