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Them Quotes by Richard Rohr
- We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
- God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
- There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who…
- Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.
- We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
- The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food…
- If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
- Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!
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