Richard Rohr Quotes

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Man makes holy what he believes.

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly...the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

To me, there are so many different things to believe in, but I think ultimately we're all energy and that energy keeps changing.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined