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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.

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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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The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
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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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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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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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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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Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.
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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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You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak not by being right, but through your mistakes.
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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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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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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Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.
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In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
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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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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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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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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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Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.
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