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True transcendence always includes the previous stages and does not dismiss them or punish them, as most reforms and revolutions have done in history. This is true reconciliation, healing or forgiveness and always characterizes mature believers. They afterward seem to thank God for the pain and the trial.   good
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Jesus himself always went where the pain was. Wherever there was human suffering, Jesus was concerned about it now, and about its healing now.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. By the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes and no longer just in parts. Yet we get to the whole by falling down into the messy parts - so many times, in fact, that we long and thirst for the wholeness and fullness of all things, including ourselves. I promise you this unified field is the only and lasting meaning of up.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Jesus touched and healed anybody who desired it and asked for it, and there were no other prerequisites for his healings.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
the little boy couldn't feel and admit the pain until he was sufficiently sure that love was there.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
You can forgive the outer world only if and when you have first forgiven your own inner world.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We clergy have gotten ourselves into the job of "sin management" instead of sin transformation. "If you are not perfect, then you are doing something wrong," we have taught people. We have blamed the victim, or have had little pity for victims, while daring to worship a victim image of God. Our mistakes are something to be pitied and healed much more than hated, denied, or perfectly avoided. I do not think you should get rid of
- Fr. Richard Rohr
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- Fr. Richard Rohr
Wherever there was human suffering, Jesus was concerned about it now, and about its healing now. It is rather amazing and very sad that we pushed it all off into a future reward system for those who were "worthy"—as if any of us are.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?
- Richard Sibbes