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Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.
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If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.
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Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
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Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.
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Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
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When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.
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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
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God does not love you because you are good, God loves you because God is good.
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It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
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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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Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.
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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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Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
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God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.
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I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
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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.
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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March 20, 1943
(age 81)
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