{"author":"Richard Rohr","author_id":"Richard+Rohr","total_quotes":96,"quotes":[{"text":"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["anxiety","change","ego"],"id":5341,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["suffering","trials"],"id":6855,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["ego","initiative","martyrdom","self-improvement","self-sacrifice"],"id":16071,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["discipleship","legalism","masculinity"],"id":20159,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"The ego hates losing – even to God.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["flesh","selfishness","surrender"],"id":21599,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"It is crucial that Jesus is led by the Spirit. There are two wildernesses, two darknesses in the spiritual journey. One you go into by your own stupidity, by your sin, blindness, ignorance and mistakes. We all do that. But there’s another darkness. The holy darkness is the darkness that God leads us into, through and beyond. This is a necessary darkness for the journey. In a certain sense, God’s darkness is a much better teacher than light. There comes a time when you have to either go deeper into faith or you will turn back, when you have to live without knowing or you lose faith altogether. So we have the Spirit leading Jesus into the wilderness, to face the essential darkness.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["darkness","jesus","richard-rohr","wilderness"],"id":25571,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["discipleship","discipline","self-control"],"id":32097,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["adaptability","change","conservatism","religion","status-quo"],"id":32098,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["racism","slavery","christian "],"id":32693,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["belonging","capitalism","marketing"],"id":48025,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}