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What was God up to in those first moments of creation? Was God totally invisible before the universe began? Or is there even such a thing as "before"? Why did God create at all? What was God's purpose in creating? Is the universe itself eternal? Or is the universe a creation in time as we know it—like Jesus himself?
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Is there any evidence for why God created the heavens and the earth? What was God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator "God" to explain the universe?
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit, "Invoked or not invoked, God is still present."*3
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Albert Einstein is supposed to have said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It is all one continuum of Incarnation. Who we are in God is who we all are. Everything else is changing and passing away.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Remember, "God" is just a word for Reality—with a Face! And occasionally Interface (which some call "prayer" or "love").
- Fr. Richard Rohr
You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Everything visible, without exception, is the outpouring of God. What else could it really be? "Christ" is a word for the Primordial Template ("Logos") through whom "all things came into being, and not one thing had its being except through him" (John 1:3).
- Fr. Richard Rohr