Richard Rohr Quotes

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

The righteous pays for the sinner.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

'Atonement' is one of my all-time favourite movies.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.