01c. 1943 ADEvery missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
02c. 1943 ADHis Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
03c. 1943 ADThose who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
04c. 1943 ADThe human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
05c. 1943 ADThe big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
06c. 1943 ADIf we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
07c. 1943 ADTHE 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1943 ADIf the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
10c. 1943 ADSeventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
12c. 1943 ADMost people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
13c. 1943 ADIf this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
16c. 1943 ADA mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
17c. 1943 ADMuch of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
18c. 1943 ADThe theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
20c. 1943 ADWhen 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
21c. 1943 ADIf our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
22c. 1943 ADGod created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
23c. 1943 ADMost Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
24c. 1943 ADYour heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
