Your 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 Faith
Your 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 Forgiveness
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 Religion
God 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 History
When '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 Happiness
The 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 Hope
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 Health
God 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 Forgiveness
