
“[Spiritual] practices help us to bring the reality of what we seek into the physicality and earthiness of our lives.” ~Christine Valters Paintner

“And then as I prayed about it, I realized that I need to show up for each person in the way that I show up for prayer.” ~Adam Bucko

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” ~Ephesians 1:18-19

“I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.” ~Matthew 11:25

“The spontaneity of grace, once it’s established on a new level, is not look to at oneself to congratulate oneself, but to move out, to serve others proportionately to the inner strength one has received from God.” ~Father Thomas Keating

“If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong, you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you are seeking to cure and you may find that the words of the Gospel now apply to you, ‘Why do you look at the speck of dust in your…

“Contemplation cannot be had unless one is serious about living the Gospel generously.” ~Thomas Dubay

“Christ is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent.” ~Colossians 1:17-18

“I am challenged to choose to love and I think all of us are challenged to choose to love. Who is it, in your life today, that you are being challenged, by the Lord God, to choose to love. Most likely, they are closer than you think.” ~Father Mike Schmitz