35 quotes found
“Restriction often enhances clarity.”
“To conform to a sick society is to become sick.”
“Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.”
“Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.”
“To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion”
“Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.”
“A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural ...”
“The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”
“The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..”
“We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.”
“Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.”
“The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.”
“Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.”
“To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.”
“Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.”
“We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.”
“The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.”
“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas sta...”
“Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all ...”
“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It ...”
“Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams agains...”
“Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.”
“Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on hav...”
