Richard Rohr Quotes

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of — throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but he is building a palace.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.