Richard Rohr, OFM

We can’t manage, maneuver or manipulate spiritual energy. It is a matter of letting go and receiving what is being given freely.

We have to change our loyalties from power, success, money and control (read: “our kingdoms”) to the Lordship of Jesus and the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God supersedes and far surpasses all kingdoms of self and society or personal reward.

The kingdom of God, or reign of God, is how things objectively, truly and finally are

The Christ includes the whole sweep of creation and history joined with him—and you too.

“Come, Lord Jesus” is a leap into the kind of freedom and surrender that is rightly called the virtue of hope.

When we pray sincerely, God  has already spoken to us, and we are just saying yes to what God wants even more than we do.