Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

— Richard Rohr

Most 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

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

— Richard Rohr

Much 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

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

— Richard Rohr

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

— Richard Rohr

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

— Richard Rohr

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

— Richard Rohr

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

— Richard Rohr

...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

— Richard Rohr