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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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Topeka
Kansas
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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
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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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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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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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God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
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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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