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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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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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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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I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.
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If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
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I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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The ego knows itself by comparison.
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There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.
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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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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.
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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.
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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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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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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very pain of God.
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THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
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