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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
Important
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Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.
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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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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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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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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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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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In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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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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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
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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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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.
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God comes to us disguised as our life.
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Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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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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If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
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God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
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