“Studies like the ones done by the neuroscientist Rick Hanson show that we must consciously hold on to a positive thought or feeling for a minimum of fifteen seconds before it leaves any imprint in the neurons.”
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
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Light Is That By Which We See
“Apparently, light is less something you see directly, and more something by which you see all other things. In other words, we have faith in Christ so we can have the faith of Christ. That is the goal.”
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
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Salvation Best Be Called Restoration
“Thus salvation might best be called “restoration,” rather than the retributive agenda most of us were offered. This alone deserves to be called “divine justice.””
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
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Wholeness
“Each of these Three Great Virtues must always include the other two in order to be authentic: love is always hopeful and faithful, hope is always loving and faithful, and faith is always loving and hopeful. They are the very nature of God and thus of all Being. Such wholeness is personified in the cosmos as Christ, and in human history as Jesus.”
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
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Your God Is Too Small
“A personal God cannot mean a smaller God, nor can God make you in any way smaller—or such would not be God.”
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
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What does it mean that Jesus is Lord?
We want to jump up and down, clap our hands, and sing that Jesus is Lord.” My question to such groups is: “What does it mean that Jesus is Lord? What practical consequences does that have for the problems of this world?”
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Out Of Our Defeats
THREEs must confront the secret of the cross, which is the secret of failure: out of our defeats God makes his victories—not ours!
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Two Different Forms Of Religion
There are two utterly different forms of religion: one believes that God will love me if I change; the other believes that God loves me so that I can change!
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How Growth Happens
It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.
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Information Is Not Wisdom
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
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