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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

The Bible will not make transformation dependent on cleverness at all, but in one of God’s favorite and most effective hiding places—humility.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

Most people in my experience are still into fearing God and controlling God instead of loving God.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

Grief Work

“Grief work” [is] holding the mystery of pain and looking right at it and learning deeply from it.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

By Some Other Means Than Forgiveness

As long as you can deal with evil by some other means than forgiveness, you will never experience the real meaning of evil and sin.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

Jesus Christ is both the medium and the message.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

Jesus was precisely the “once and for all” sacrifice given to reveal the lie and absurdity of the very notion and necessity of “sacrificial” religion itself.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

Presence does not happen in the mind.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>