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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
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Topeka
Kansas
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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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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