Richard Rohr Zitate

“So much is happening on earth that cannot be fixed or explained, but it can be felt and suffered. I think a Christian is one who, along with Jesus, agrees to feel, to suffer the pain of the world.”

“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”

“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”

“Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity but to change the mind of humanity about God. It is “simple and beautiful;” as Einstein said great truth would always have to be.”

“Transformation is often more about UNLEARNING than learning.”

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

“The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.”

“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”

“Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.”

“We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.”

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”

“There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.”

“Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!”

“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 most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.”

“The ego hates losing – even to God.”

“Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.”

“Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.”

“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”

“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves”

“there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.”

“The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”

“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”

“In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”

“When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.”

“The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.”

“The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.”

“… religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”

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