Richard Rohr Quotes

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.

Richard Rohr

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• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• A god that can be understood is not a god.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • God

• There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

  

  Enrico Fermi

• If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Faith
  • Fall
  • Perish

• When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Believe
  • Advocate

• I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Her

• Mindfulness is about observation without criticism; being compassionate with yourself.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Yourself
  • Criticism
  • Mindfulness

• Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Men
  • Song

• Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Tales
  • Whispering

• If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

  

  William James
  • People
  • Giving
  • Winning

• Wise men hear and see as little children do.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Children
  • Hear
  • Wise Men

• I have to drive to Wilburton three times a week. There's no telling how much gas money we spend.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Week
  • Times
  • Wilburton

• When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Journalism
  • Widget
  • Commercial enterprise

• Nero did not, technically speaking, prosecute Christians for being Christian. He executed them for committing arson. True, they probably were not guilty, but that was the charge. Being a Christian was not punishable, but setting fire to Rome was. Nero’s persecution was localized. It involved only the city of Rome. Nothing indicates that Christians elsewhere in the empire suffered any consequences. Even more significant, it appears that none of Nero’s successors down to Trajan (ruled 98–117 CE) persecuted Christians. Between Nero in 64 CE and Marcus Aurelius in 177 CE, the only mention of an emperor’s intervention in Christian affairs, apart from the episode involving Trajan found in Pliny’s letters, is a letter from the emperor Hadrian that gives instructions to a local governor to conduct his trials against the Christians fairly.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christians
  • Charge
  • Suffered

• Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Work
  • Jesus
  • Holiday

• Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Christians
  • Purposes
  • Integration