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Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life Quotes: Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
         

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.


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