Quotes about Growth
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In the first half of life, we fight the devil and have the illusion and inflation of "winning" now and then; in the second half of life, we always lose because we are invariably fighting God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
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 is not working. It attaches to past and present, and fears the future.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Before the truth 'sets you free', it tends to make you miserable.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.
— Fr. Richard Rohr