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God does not love you because you are good, God loves you because God is good.

— Richard Rohr

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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.

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999)

Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.

Group-think is a substitute for God-think. The belief is that God is found only by our group. The next step is to establish that identification with our group as the only way to serve God.

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999)

The world, the system, moves forward out of fear. That’s why they have to threaten us to play the game. We’re threatened with loss of job, money, reputation, or prestige. It’s all based on fear.

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999)

So much is happening on earth that cannot be fixed or explained, but it can be felt and suffered. I think a Christian is one who, along with Jesus, agrees to feel, to suffer the pain of the world.

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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