Quote

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

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
Bigger
Religion
Much
Always
Time
Protecting
Boxes
Waste
Build

More quotes by Richard Rohr

Image
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
Richard Rohr
Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.
Richard Rohr
Image
Every viewpoint is a view from a point.
Richard Rohr
Image
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
Richard Rohr
Image
God comes to you disguised as your life.
Richard Rohr
Image
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.
Richard Rohr
Image
The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
Richard Rohr
Image
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
Richard Rohr
Image
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
Richard Rohr
Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
Richard Rohr
Image
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.
Richard Rohr
Image
We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
Richard Rohr
Image
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
Richard Rohr
Image
You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
Richard Rohr
Image
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
Richard Rohr
Image
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.
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
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.
Richard Rohr
Image
You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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