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People Quotes by Richard Rohr
- Transformed people transform people.
- 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…
- A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
- My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But…
- If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
- A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
- Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
- Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.
- 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…
- It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.
- Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our…
- ...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
- Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend…
- People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the…
- All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and…
- People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
- Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.
- Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
- In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt…
- The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
- One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation…
- People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle