Richard Rohr Quotes

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was God.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.