31+ Richard Rohr Quotes From The Spiritual American Author

Born in 1943, Richard Rohr is an American author as well as a spiritual writer.

Richard Rohr hails  from Kansas, United States. Richard Rohr has written several books, some of which include, 'The Universal Christ', 'Immortal Diamond', and 'Everything Belongs'.

Mainly based on spirituality, most of his books have been deeply loved by readers. Richard Rohr believed in the ultimate power of God, which is quite visible from his writing. Richard Rohr 'Falling Upward' quotes, Richard Rohr quotes of 'Immortal Diamond' are liked by all. Below is a list of Richard Rohr quotes about life and spirituality. Listed below you will also find Richard Rohr quotes on thankfulness and why it is important to thank God from Richard Rohr himself.  

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Richard Rohr was a spiritualist by nature, therefore his view of the world and the people residing in it, are quite different. Richard Rohr believed in love, compassion and harmony, to be the primary essentials for living and tried to motivate others to follow the same path. The following is a list of famous Richard Rohr quotes for you to enjoy.

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

- Richard Rohr.

2. "Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself."

- Richard Rohr.

3. "Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world."

- Richard Rohr.

4. "The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection."

- Richard Rohr.

5. "People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery."

- Richard Rohr.

6. "There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough."

- Richard Rohr.

7. "If you learn to love the poor one within you, you'll discover that you have room to have compassion 'outside' too."

- Richard Rohr.

8. "It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy."

- Richard Rohr.

9. "Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."

- Richard Rohr.

10. "I’m sure that most people in the Western world have never really met the person who they themselves really are."

- Richard Rohr.

An ardent believer of Jesus and His holy power, Richard Rohr tried to propagate his ideologies of the world through his various writings. Richard Rohr is a very powerful writer, who tried to fight the evils of the society by using his pen as a weapon. Here's a list of some of the best Richard Rohr quotes about life.

11. "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."

- Richard Rohr.

12. "If only we could see these wounds as the way through, as Jesus did, then they would become sacred wounds rather than scars to deny, disguise, or project onto others."

- Richard Rohr.

13. "We must, yes, must, make a daily and even hourly choice to focus on the good, the true, and the beautiful."

- Richard Rohr.

14. "We all somehow believe it is a coherent and even a benevolent universe. Maybe that is the very heart of the meaning of faith."

- Richard Rohr.

15. "The primary and essential revelation of the mystery of God is nature, is creation."

- Richard Rohr.

16. "Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter."

- Richard Rohr.

17. "We are not punished for our sins, which is the way so many of us have been taught. We are punished by our sins."

- Richard Rohr.

18. "If I could encourage you toward one spiritual discipline it would be silence and solitude."

- Richard Rohr.

19. "A contemplative posture faces reality and sees the presence of God."

- Richard Rohr.

20. "If a person keeps growing, his or her various false selves usually die in exposure to greater light."

- Richard Rohr.

Love for God, and love for each other, is what keeps a man going and this idea was vigorously followed by Richard Rohr, which is quite visible from the numerous books like 'Immortal Diamond' and 'Breathing Under Water', to name a few, that he has written. The following is list of the most inspiring Richard Rohr quotes for you to read. Which of these Richard Rohr quotes is your favorite?

21. "Our speaking of God is a search for similes, analogies, and metaphors. All theological language is an approximation, offered tentatively in holy awe."

- Richard Rohr.

22. "Transformation is often more about unlearning than learning."

- Richard Rohr.

23. "True spirituality is not a search for perfection or control or the door to the next world; it is a search for divine union now."

- Richard Rohr.

24. "I love beautiful spaces. But if creating beautiful spaces like this for one moment leads you to think that God is not equally out there on the streets of Portland, then religion is not doing its job."

- Richard Rohr.

25. "All great spirituality is what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us."

- Richard Rohr.

26. "Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God."

- Richard Rohr.

27. "First there is the fall, and then there is the recovery from the fall. But both are the mercy of God."

- Richard Rohr.

28. "The world, the system, moves forward out of fear. That's why they have to threaten us to play the game. We're threatened with loss of job, money, reputation, or prestige. It's all based on fear."

- Richard Rohr.

29. "We do tend to think of fire as destructive in spiritual theology and in alchemy, take the recent fire in Notre Dame in Paris. And, of course, it can be very destructive, but, you know, I would say fire is primarily transformative."

- Richard Rohr.

30. "The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it."

- Richard Rohr.

31. "The ego hates losing, even to God."

- Richard Rohr.

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