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Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.
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A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.
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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
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What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.
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Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America traditional Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.
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I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
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To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
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The ego knows itself by comparison.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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Christ is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole Jesus piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the world.
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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak not by being right, but through your mistakes.
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