Richard Rohr: Quotes about God

Richard Rohr is American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest. Explore interesting quotes on god.

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“Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity but to change the mind of humanity about God. It is “simple and beautiful;” as Einstein said great truth would always have to be.”

Source: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

“The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.”

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

“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.”

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.”

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

“The ego hates losing – even to God.”

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

“In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”

“Group-think is a substitute for God-think. The belief is that God is found only by our group. The next step is to establish that identification with our group as the only way to serve God.”

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 82

“Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.”

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 127

“God does not love you because you are good, God loves you because God is good.”

"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.”

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

“Religion has not tended to create seekers or searchers, has not tended to create honest, humble people who trust that God is always beyond them. We aren’t focused on the great mystery. Religion has, rather, tended to create people who think they have God in their pockets, people with quick, easy, glib answers. That’s why so much of the West is understandably abandoning religion. People know the great mystery cannot be that simple and facile.”

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 33