Faith Quotes by Richard Rohr

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

— Richard Rohr

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

— Richard Rohr

The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God…

— Richard Rohr

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is…

— Richard Rohr

“When you first discharge your loyal soldier, it will feel like a loss of faith or loss of self. But it is…

— Richard Rohr

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so…

— Richard Rohr

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is…

— Richard Rohr

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not…

— Richard Rohr

What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first…

— Richard Rohr

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

“Jesus is not telling us to believe unbelievable things, as if that would somehow please God. He is much more saying to…

— Richard Rohr

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

To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was…

— Richard Rohr

“Setting out is always a leap of faith, a risk in the deepest sense of the term, and yet an adventure too.…

— Richard Rohr

“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the…

— Richard Rohr

“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

“To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us - and all at the same…

— Richard Rohr

“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