Richard Rohr Quotes

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Pray in faith.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

Although, the flesh is weak, the Spirit of God is always willing, and He makes us able.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can't. We shouldn't. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.