Richard Rohr

"The word God is not a noun, it is a verb."

"We accept reality too early and too easily."

"If we do not transform our pain, we will most surely transmit it."

"The mystics were always the bridge between the human and the divine."

"Your shadow is what you refuse to see about yourself."

"Death is important not as an end but as a transition."

"Love is the final form of understanding."

"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking."

"God is not a homophobe, and I can say that with assurance."

"The soul loves to hide, hides to love."

"Necessary suffering creates the soul."

"If we cannot find God in human faces, we cannot find God anywhere."

"Most of us are just doing the best we can with the tools we have been given."

"Falling apart is one way the world gets built."

"The great spiritual traditions teach us to transcend the false self."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"You cannot live in the now without dying to yesterday."

"Grief is just love with no place to go."

"Spirituality is not primarily about different beliefs. It is about a transformed life."

"The cosmos is not made of atoms; it is made of consciousness."

"To be spiritual means you have nothing to defend anymore."

"The ego cannot transcend itself."

"We do not need to think the same to love the same."

"Conversion happens when you can see the face of God in the face of the other."

"Real love is not sentimental; it is the willingness to serve the other."

"The shortest way to change is the longest way through."

"Darkness is where things actually grow."

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

"You cannot change people with your head; you can only change them with your heart."

"The gospel is subversive to all powers that be."