The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

by Richard Rohr

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

This self-disclosure of whomever you call God into physical creation was the first Incarnation

My point is this: When I know that the world around me is both the hiding place and the revelation of God, I can no longer make a significant distinction between the natural and the supernatural, between the holy and the profane.

But God loves things by becoming them. God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them.

The Divine has never seemed very worried about us getting his or her exact name right (see Exodus 3:14). As Jesus himself says, “Do not believe those who say ‘Lord, Lord’ ” (Matthew 7:21, Luke 6:46, italics added). He says it is those who “do it right” that matter, not those who “say it right.”