Richard Rohr

"We are called to build the kingdom, not escape the world."

"Real prayer is not asking God for things; it is alignment with God's will."

"The ultimate heresy is believing that God is small."

"We live by grace, not by merit or performance."

"The universe is a love letter written by God to God."

"Our job is to cooperate with the creative process, not control it."

"The false self must die so the true self can emerge."

"We are more united than we are divided."

"Salvation is not escape but transformation into love."

"The contemplative sees what is; the dualistic mind sees what it wants to see."

"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."

"The kingdom of God is within you and all around you."

"Real wisdom comes from integrating both head and heart."

"We must let go of who we think we are in order to become who we are meant to be."

"The inside and outside must become one."

"God is not homophobic."

"Suffering, when it is teaching you something, is not wasted."

"You cannot think your way into a new way of living; you have to live your way into a new way of thinking."

"Until you know the both/and of reality, you will always be judgmental."

"The task of the second half of life is to become conscious of what we have rejected in ourselves."

"True prayer is letting go of the illusion that we are in charge."

"Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is remembering without anger."

"We are not going to think ourselves into heaven or enlightenment."

"The soul usually requires a lifetime of correction and conversion."

"God loves the sinner while hating the sin."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built."

"Contemplation is just a long, loving look at reality."

"We cannot love others until we see the depth and divinity in ourselves first."

"Transformation happens little by little, day by day."

"The Divine Feminine has been waiting in the wings for five hundred years."