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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I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
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Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.
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[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
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I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
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She seemed to have neither sense of fullness nor taste, and would often combine foods in manners that struck Blue as problematic. She didn't believe in telling people how to live their lives (well, maybe a little), but it was hard to stand by and watch Gwenllian spread peanut butter on a cold hot dog.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
