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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
Criticism
Practice
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The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
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The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
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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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When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
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People wanted to me to describe more about what I call the container, and then describe what the second half of life feels like.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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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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The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
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Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.
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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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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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The journey never happens alone.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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The message of falling - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.
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