You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.
Richard RohrTag: values law structure maturation
Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.
Richard RohrWe are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
Richard RohrTag: conformity law rules rebellion
The ego hates losing – even to God.
Richard RohrTag: flesh selfishness surrender
Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
Richard RohrTag: sin arrogance ego self-satisfaction
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
Richard RohrIt is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.
Richard RohrBefore the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.
Richard RohrTag: conviction confrontation
The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.
Richard RohrTag: humility curiosity self-centeredness depravity
Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.
Richard RohrTag: creation idolatry glory-of-god
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