Richard Rohr Quotes
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In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
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Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act…
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Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.
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Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an…
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around…
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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Transformed people transform people.
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A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be…
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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
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Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those…
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When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
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Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are…
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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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…
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We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames…
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The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status…
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene…
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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and…
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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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