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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.

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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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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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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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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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.
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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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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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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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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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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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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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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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Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.
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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
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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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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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