Richard Rohr Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.”

“Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in the long run or in the deep run. We soon find ourselves separate and without wonder.”

“If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.”

“We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.”

“I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.”

“I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.”

“It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.”

“Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.”

“If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.”

“Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.”