"The people who know God wellâ€”mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find Godâ€”always meet a lover, not a dictator."

-- Richard Rohr

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“As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.”
“The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.”
“Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.”
“These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.”
“Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.”

Source : Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.”
“Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.”
“Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.”

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