Richard Rohr, OFM

Suffering opens the channel through which all of Life flows and by which all creation breathes

Only mutual apology, healing, and forgiveness offer a sustainable future for humanity.

It is easy to surrender when we know that nothing but Love and Mercy are on the other side.

To keep our bodies less defended—to live in our bodies right now, to be present to others in a cellular way—is also the work of healing past hurts and the many memories that seem to store themselves in the body

God resists our evil and conquers it with good, or how could God ask the same of us?!

God’s totally positive and lasting way of removing our shortcomings is to fill up the hole with something much better, more luminous, and more satisfying.

If God already knows what we need before we ask, and God actually cares about us more than we care about ourselves, then why do both Step 7 and Jesus say, each in their own way: “Ask, and you will receive.