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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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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
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The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
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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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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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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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The ego knows itself by comparison.
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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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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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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 you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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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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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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God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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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 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 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.
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