Jesus Quote by Richard Rohr

“Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.”

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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.”

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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 own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life.…

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