Richard Rohr Quotes

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

This life is messy.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

The world is a very abnormal place.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

We live in a... chaotic world.

Life's messy.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Destiny and history are untidy.

History is messy, undetermined, and layered.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.