Richard Rohr Quotes - Page 9

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• I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

  Richard Rohr

  Thinking, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Creating, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Differences, Style

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.

  Richard Rohr

  Book, Fall, People

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

  Richard Rohr

  Doe, Opinion, Wells

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

  Richard Rohr

  Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Unhappy

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• It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

  Richard Rohr

  Children, People, Needs

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• 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 you.

  Richard Rohr

  Hurt, People, Half

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life -- A Companion Journal”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

  Richard Rohr

  Baby, Jesus, Waiting

  "Preparing for Christmas" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

  Richard Rohr

  Giving, Mind, Want

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.

  Richard Rohr

  Mistake, Healing, Cutting

  Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert (2001). “The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Character, Looks, Sides

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• Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Immature, Different

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Ifs, Transmit

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality”, p.18, SPCK

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• What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and matters—the present moment.

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  Faith, Christian, Real

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• What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.

  Richard Rohr

  Names, Two, Church

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Fall, Falling Apart

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Past, People

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• Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

  Richard Rohr

  Atheist, Ignorance, Atheism

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• Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Belief, Made

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• The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

  Richard Rohr

  Fall, Want, Messages

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Strong, Prayer

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, People, Giving

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Bridges, Groups

  "Life on the Edge: Understanding the Prophetic Position" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2011.

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