Richard Rohr Quotes

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Your soul is between you and God.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.