Richard Rohr: Doing

Richard Rohr is American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”

Richard Rohr

Variant: Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.”

Richard Rohr

Source: The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves”

Richard Rohr

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

“We have defined freedom in the West as the freedom to choose between options and preferences. That’s not primal freedom. That’s a secondary or even tertiary freedom. The primal freedom is the freedom to be the self, the freedom to live in the truth despite all circumstances. That’s what great religion offers us. That’s what real prayer offers us. That’s why the saints could be imprisoned and not lose their souls. They could be put down and persecuted like Jesus and still not lose their joy, their heart, or their perspective. Secular freedom is having to do what you want to do. Religious freedom is wanting to do what you have to do.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 93

“Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.”

Richard Rohr

"Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006"

“What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important. Too often people think it is necessary that we all see God in the same way (which is impossible anyway), but what is really necessary is that we all follow God according to what God tells us. The fact that God has given us so many different faces and temperaments and emotions and histories shows us how God honors each unique journey and culture. God is not threatened by differences. It’s we who are.”

Richard Rohr

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 110