Richard Rohr Quotes

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

The world would have peace if the men of politics would only follow the Gospel.

All men are equal at the foot of the Cross.

Christ came to this earth with a message of mercy and forgiveness. He laid the foundation for a religion by which Jew and Gentile, black and white, free and bond, are linked together in one common brotherhood, recognized as equal in the sight of God