Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of being intentionally aware of our appreciation for others and our devotion to a higher power.
Richard Rohr suggests that as human beings, we have a responsibility to consciously acknowledge and appreciate the beauty and worth of those around us, as well as to cultivate a deliberate connection and devotion to God. This intentionality fosters deeper relationships and spiritual growth, urging us to move beyond passive admiration into a more active and thoughtful practice of gratitude and reverence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about gratitude during a community gathering.
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.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies.
I admit that thoughts influence the body.
Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
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