Richard Rohr Quotes

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Great faith must have great trials.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.

If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.