Quotes about Progress
Francis of Assisi was a master of making room for the new and letting go of that which was tired or empty.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
humans tend to live themselves into new ways of thinking more than think themselves into new ways of living.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Trust the process.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Faith
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Grace must and will edge you forward. "God has no grandchildren. God only has children," as some have said. Each generation has to make its own discoveries of Spirit for itself.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Three steps forward, two steps back.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Without an evolutionary worldview, Christianity does not really understand, much less foster, growth or change. Nor does it know how to respect and support where history is heading.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Eric Hoffer, the street philosopher, put it this way: "In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We are driven, kicking and screaming, toward ever higher levels of union and ability to include (to forgive others for being "other"), it seems to me. "Everything that rises must converge," as Teilhard de Chardin put it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr