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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
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God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.
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The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.
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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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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
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I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.
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I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
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I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
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It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
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The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
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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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Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
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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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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!
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