It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.
Richard RohrWhen you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.
Richard RohrWe do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
Richard RohrAs you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as returning to God
Richard Rohr