Richard Rohr Quotes

Life is the soul's nursery.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I think it's important to keep moving forward so that the soul can grow.

Education is soul crafting.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this we must look to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.