Richard Rohr Quotes

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

Love to me has no bounds.

Love knoweth no laws.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

Love recognizes no barriers.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceries—you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh.

A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

One must love everything.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.