10 quotes
It is almost as much the duty of a Christian to be loved as to love.
Nothing could be more untrue than the often-repeated statement that we all worship the same God; or that other, that whatever we worship the result is the same.
The one thing she [Mary] did and does is the one thing that we all have to do, namely, to bear Christ into the world.
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
The one essential for sanctity is the capacity to love.
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
The beginning of human happiness, and even of human sanity, is to begin to know God . . . Goodness draws the human soul as a tide is drawn by light.
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
To surrender all that we are, as we are, to the spirit of love in order that our lives may bear Christ into the world – that is what we shall be asked.
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
Lift up your eyes and see the star!
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
Christ is among us
His heart like a rose
expanding within us . . .
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
It seems a law of fallen nature that life must always come to its being through darkness, and this makes us even more aware of its beauty. Dawn is lovelier because it comes after night, spring because it follows winter.
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)
Prayer alone can teach us to concentrate again, can lead us to absolute trust in God, and make our minds ready for other essential things . . . for the contemplation (not mere observation) of beauty.
Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)