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If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.
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It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
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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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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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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary world views, or with pelvic morality as the defining issues of the Gospel? Jesus surely didn't. Jesus said to preach the gospel to all nations, which means we do not just talk to ourselve
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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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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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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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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Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
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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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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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