Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through! — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“When you first discharge your loyal soldier, it will feel like a loss of faith or loss of self. But it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Jesus is not telling us to believe unbelievable things, as if that would somehow please God. He is much more saying to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Setting out is always a leap of faith, a risk in the deepest sense of the term, and yet an adventure too.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“At times we have to step into God’s silence and patiently wait. We have to put out the fleece as Gideon did… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us - and all at the same… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Good powerlessness (because there is also a bad powerlessness) allows you to “fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31).… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
