God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.
Richard RohrIt’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.
Richard RohrWhat we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
Richard RohrPeople wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.
Richard RohrThe message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.
Richard RohrMy scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.
Richard Rohr