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When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.

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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It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
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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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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.
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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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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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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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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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Every viewpoint is a view from a point.
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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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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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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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Christ is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole Jesus piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the world.
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