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Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe
Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can “save” suffering people, Those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.
from Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr
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
from Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr
Father Richard Rohr describes the “eagerness to love” that characterized the life and spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226):
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. Francis of Assisi succeeded in living in a single-hearted way, in which his only goal was to love. This intense eagerness to love made his whole
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