"If you try to assert wisdom before people……" — Richard Rohr
"If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate."
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171 Quotes by Richard Rohr
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In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has…
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Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until…
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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,…
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through…
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person…
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of…
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil…
— Albert Camus
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day…
— Barack Obama
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
— George Washington
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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