Richard Rohr Quotes

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

In terms of my personal spirituality and everything else, it's ever-evolving. I have a desire to want more out of the universe. But the older I get, the further I get from any specifics about that.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God