Quotes By Author: Father Richard Rohr

“Whenever I think there’s a perfect pattern, further reading and study reveal an exception. Whenever I want to say “only” or “always”, someone or something proves me wrong. My scientist friends have come up with things like “principles of uncertainty” and dark holes. They’re willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution, and clarity, while thinking that we are people of “faith”! How strange that the very word “faith” has come to mean its exact opposite.”