Category: Quotes

Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Perhaps if I sit inside Genesis 3 long enough, I might come to know that God is not hidden from my body, my body that…

We seem to be caught up in an adventure in which God wants to feel what it is like to be human in each of…

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everythingto reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the…

There is at the back of all our lives an abyss of light, more blinding and unfathomable than any abyss of darkness; and it is…

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our…

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence . . . [and that is] activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are…

All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking activity and the body’s need for sleep. There is a rhythm…

If only for once it were still.   If the not quite right and the why this   could be muted, and the neighbour’s laughter,   and the static…

Steeling your heart, Yet what’s the use? . Already it’s stolen. Already the beloved Has captured the castle. . How defend yourself Against rapture? How…