Ronald Rolheiser Quotes

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• Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be…
• Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.
• Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as…
• The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.
• It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very…
• The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every…
• To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at…
• The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life is…
• This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm…
• We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

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