Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

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.

  3. Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without...

  4. ...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

  5. ...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

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