Richard Rohr: Quotes about people

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

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“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

“Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.”

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

“Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.”

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

“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”

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

“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”

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

“… religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”

Source: Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.”

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

“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