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God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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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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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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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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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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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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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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When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
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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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A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
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Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing. You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.
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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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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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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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Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America traditional Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.
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