Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.
Richard RohrThe more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.
Richard RohrThe real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naรฏve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.
Richard RohrSalvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.
Richard RohrThe people who know God wellโmystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find Godโalways meet a lover, not a dictator.
Richard RohrWe grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.
Richard Rohr