Richard Rohr Quotes

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

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• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Write
  • Working

• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Want
  • Better
  • Acting

• It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Year

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Doing
  • Grateful

• In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • High
  • Today

• The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • World
  • America
  • Find

• My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Business

• Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Important
  • Nice

• There is not a single criterion which can serve as the measure of the non-existent, of the non-human.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Single

• I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Pretty
  • Perfect

• The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Long
  • Environment
  • Financial

• I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Business
  • Management
  • Champion

• I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • Imagination

• I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some sort of mustache-twirling caricature!

  

  Mariana Klaveno

• Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

  

  Elyn Saks
  • Mind
  • Powerful

• Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

  

  John Ralston Saul

• If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• ...in October 1866 I broke out as a lecturer, and from that day to this I have always been able to gain my living without doing any work; for the writing of books and magazine matter was always play, not work. I enjoyed it; it was merely billiards to me.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • Writing
  • October

• Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will “naturally” choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Culture
  • Economy
  • Choose

• 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
  • Christian
  • Prejudices
  • Attitudes