Richard Rohr Quotes

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

You get up every day and you just give it over to God. And something may come against you because of the unforgiveness. But you recognize that. And you say I'm not going to hold this unforgiveness. It's something that you have to do all the time.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.