Richard Rohr - Life Quotes

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The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Richard Rohr
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

Richard Rohr
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
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

Richard Rohr
Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

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Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

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The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

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Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

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