"This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus……" — Ronald Rolheiser
"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 and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love."
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Ronald Rolheiser
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10 Quotes by Ronald Rolheiser
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Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist…
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Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing…
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Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and…
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The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.
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It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is…
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The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every…
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To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of…
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The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love…
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We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really…
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