If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are no serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

— Richard Rohr

If 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

If 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

If 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

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

— Richard Rohr

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.

— Richard Rohr

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

— Richard Rohr

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

— Richard Rohr

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

— Richard Rohr

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

— Richard Rohr