Richard Rohr Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.”

“This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.”

“If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.”

“It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.”

“Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.”

“When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.”

“In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.”

“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.”

“One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.”

“God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.”