"If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it."

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Richard Rohr

#Suffering Quotes

“We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.”
“Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.”
“The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.”
“A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.”
“The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.”
“It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.”
“I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.”
“For anyone in our industry, one of the toughest things about having a relationship is how much time you get to see each other. The fact that we see each other every day, no matter what, has really worked out nicely for us. She's such a great girl. She makes what I do so much easier and so much more enjoyable.”

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