Ronald Rolheiser Quotes
Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.
We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.
Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.
Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.
Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.
Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.