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The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very pain of God.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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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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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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Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.
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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
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To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
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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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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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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.
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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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God comes to us disguised as our life.
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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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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.
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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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