Richard Rohr Inspirational Quotes (127)

You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

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

The ego knows itself by comparison.

To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as two or three gathered in my name is not still the best way.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

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.