In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Richard Rohr
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  1. Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

  2. Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

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