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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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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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Kansas
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Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
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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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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.
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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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Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
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THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
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Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
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Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.
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Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
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What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
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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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When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.
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The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.
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When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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