Richard Rohr Quotes
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.
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I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
