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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 comes to you disguised as your life.
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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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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
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The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
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To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as two or three gathered in my name is not still the best way.
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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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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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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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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.
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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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