Quotes about Author
Mere obedience is far too often a detour around actual love. Obedience is usually about cleaning up, love is about waking up.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Do a violent people want, create and need a violent God, or has the textual presentation of a sometimes violent God legitimated and even blessed our own violent history?
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If my underlying thesis in this book is true and Christ is a word for the Big Story Line of history, then the incarnational worldview held maturely is precisely the Good News!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The common word for this inner abiding place of the Spirit, which is also a place of longing, has usually been the word soul. We have our soul already—we do not "get" it by any purification process
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Creation is the first and probably the final Bible, Incarnation is already Redemption, Christmas is already Easter, and Jesus is already Christ.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
only God's Spirit can raise the conscience with comfort above guilt, because he only is greater than the conscience.
— Richard Sibbes
Solomon noted that envy is the reason why most people overwork!
— Rick Warren
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
— Paul David Tripp
The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
— William Paul Young
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
— William Carey
The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.
— Charles Spurgeon