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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Truth
Revealing
Concrete
Universal
Standing
Jesus

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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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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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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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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
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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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It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
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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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Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.
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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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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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