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Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr
American Clergyman
Born: 1943
God Love Me Will World You
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. Richard Rohr
Health Racism Immigration Care Minority Country Transformation Group Christian Has-Been Echo Only Tend Consumerism True Attitudes Most Health Care Revealing Real Issues Been Cultural Dominant Any Poor Prejudices Believers Consciousness Slavery
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. Richard Rohr
Nature Song Singing Never Praise Stops
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. Richard Rohr
Love God Forgiveness History Compassion Our Been Storyline Us Created Union
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. Richard Rohr
Hope Happy Patient Live Virtue Our Ourselves Willingness Beyond Another Content Because Without Still Source Closure Theological Even Satisfaction Now Level Resolution
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens. Richard Rohr
Love Faith Forgiveness Time Prayer You Heart Grace Mercy Hell Be Prepared Through Open Happens Your Prepared Keep
If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day. Richard Rohr
Day You Every Day Will Depend Every Inspired Emotionally Almost Almost Every Day New Motivated Fix Being Newly Need
We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries. Richard Rohr
Truth God Alone Day Angry Me Fruit Humanity Every Day People Words Unhappy Long Every Too Extraordinary Has-Been Religious Seems Rather Through Observe Countries Looked Well Well-Educated Limited Educated Been Amount
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
You Guidance Better Protection Group State Ancient Cross Join Had Knew Know Another Leave Doing Move Whenever Patronage Place Bridge Need
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. Richard Rohr
God You Reality World Giving Entire About More Shaking Inspiration Self Never Mere Thus Concerned Alternative Self-Image Much Your Foundations Utterly Image Jesus
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything. Richard Rohr
Life Love Journey Me Change Odds Other Everything Seem Mystery Put Feel Know Make Led To Love Explanations Who Many Believers Need
Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves. Richard Rohr
God Big Met Believe Ourselves Would Only Both Purposes Point Missed Most Practical Catholics Integration Human Jesus Christians
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity. Richard Rohr
Me Made Religious Religious Belief Comfortable Ambiguity Belief
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last! Richard Rohr
Class People Walk Insist First Nation Think Monotheistic States Systems Would Would-Be Religions Be The First Boundaries Line Cultures Artificial Often Being Created Across Who Even Last
I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate. Richard Rohr
Secular Christian Consider Bit Those Citizenship See Unreal Clearly Attitudes Openly Most Very Difference Estate Little Little Bit Themselves Agnostic Who Appears Right Here
Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine. Richard Rohr
School Mine Dream Having Longtime Really Fulfillment
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world. Richard Rohr
Good Experience World Preaching Own Sense My Own Struggling Had Also Make Globe Tiny While Much Across Fortune Teaching Good Fortune
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth. Richard Rohr
Truth Revealing Concrete Very Standing Jesus Universal

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