Richard Rohr Quotes

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

I believe with all my heart that God is not done with America yet.

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.