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Love Quotes by Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr reminds us that unprocessed pain can be passed on, so we must transform it. He notes that we often reach the divine not by perfect actions but by stumbling through mistakes. He also sees each perspective as a tiny flicker within a larger flame of life.

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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

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You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

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If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

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The journey never happens alone.

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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

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Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

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God comes to us disguised as our life.

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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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Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

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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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God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even…

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Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

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The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

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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…

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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,…

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This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This…

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As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again…

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If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on…

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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…

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We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself,…

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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in…

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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…

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There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there.…

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“It is almost impossible to fall in love with majesty, power, or perfection. These make us fearful and codependent, but seldom truly…

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When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come…

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The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful…

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“Love is not something you do; love is someone you are. It is your True Self.8 Love is where you came from…

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As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that…

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If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there…

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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…

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The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be…

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“Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love…

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“We cannot make God love us more, and we cannot make God love us less. We do not have that kind of…

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If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,…

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Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

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Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

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Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not…

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“Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the…

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“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.”

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

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,…

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.…

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those…

“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and…

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it…

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my…

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good,…

“The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.”