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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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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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Topeka
Kansas
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.
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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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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
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Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing. You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.
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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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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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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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God comes to us disguised as our life.
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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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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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I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.
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