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“Amazing that we made Jesus into the consummate answer giver because that is not what he usually does. He more often leads us right onto the horns of our own human-made dilemmas, where we are forced to meet God and be honest with ourselves. He creates problems for us more than resolves them, problems that very often cannot be resolved by all-or-nothing thinking but only by love and forgiveness.”
― Richard Rohr, Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent

“God comes to you disguised as your life,”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“Love is not something you do; love is someone you are. It is your True Self.8 Love is where you came from and love is where you’re going. It’s not something you can buy. It’s not something you can attain. It is the presence of God within you, called the Holy Spirit—or what some theologians name uncreated grace.”
― Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

“The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life