Richard Rohr Quotes

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.