Richard Rohr Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Spiritual, Loneliness

• Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

• Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

  Richard Rohr

  Space, Silence, Pushing

  "Contemplation in Action". Book by Richard Rohr, 2006.

• If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Prayer

• In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, the first things to show up were the wild beasts.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Giving Up, People

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