The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return. Richard Rohr More Quotes by Richard Rohr More Quotes From Richard Rohr Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. Richard Rohr singing praise song All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Richard Rohr great-spiritual spirituality pain Pain that is not transformed is transmitted. Richard Rohr transformed pain There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough. Richard Rohr being-yourself who-i-am enough Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation. Richard Rohr eye judging prayer Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible. Richard Rohr self trying people When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment. Richard Rohr void mirrors way The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143 Richard Rohr emotional real simple The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. Richard Rohr sunflower light morning Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts. Richard Rohr simple religious jesus You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge. Richard Rohr heal acknowledge My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite. Richard Rohr religious dark mean The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future. Richard Rohr ego past fall THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth. Richard Rohr self-worth journey adventure Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners. Richard Rohr people jesus thinking To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . . Richard Rohr demand maturity giving The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times. Richard Rohr one-liner common If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it. Richard Rohr transmit ifs suffering Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God. Richard Rohr creation creativity process When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own. Richard Rohr eye want love
