Quote

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

Richard Rohr

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Seems
Naturally
Toward
Glory
Taught
Turn
Morning
Sunflowers
Turns
Sunflower
Light
Glories

More quotes by Richard Rohr

Image
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
Richard Rohr
Image
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.
Richard Rohr
Image
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
Richard Rohr
Image
I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary world views, or with pelvic morality as the defining issues of the Gospel? Jesus surely didn't. Jesus said to preach the gospel to all nations, which means we do not just talk to ourselve
Richard Rohr
Image
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.
Richard Rohr
Image
What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
Richard Rohr
Image
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
Richard Rohr
Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
Richard Rohr
Image
We 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
Image
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.
Richard Rohr
Image
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
Richard Rohr
Image
After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.
Richard Rohr
Image
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
Richard Rohr
Image
Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
Richard Rohr
Image
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.
Richard Rohr
Image
Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.
Richard Rohr
Image
You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
Richard Rohr
Image
We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
Richard Rohr
Image
I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.
Richard Rohr
Image
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
Richard Rohr