More Quotes for Spiritual Life Class

Quotes from The Spiritual Life Class


“The first, wildest, and wisest thing I know is that the soul exists and it is built entirely out of attentiveness” Mary Oliver quoted by Parker Palmer in A Hidden Wholeness

“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage”
Henri Matisse

“ If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.”
Eugene Peterson


Love is at the center of Christian spirituality because Christians share the simple yet profound conviction that “God is love” I John 4:8

The unfathomable mystery of God is that God is a Lover who wants to be loved. The one who created us is waiting for our response to the love that gave us our being. God not only says ‘You are my beloved.” God also asks: Do you love me?’ and offers us countless chances to say yes.”
Henri Nouwen quoted on page 48 in Habits of the Heart, Abingdon Press 2006


“True religion is loving God with all our heart.
And our neighbor as ourselves;
and in that love abstaining from all evil
and doing all possible good to all.”
John Wesley

God looks at the world through the eyes of love.
If we, …as human beings made in the image of God also want to see reality
…as it truly is, then we too, must learn to look at what we see with love.
Roberta Bondi quoted on p. 57 Habits of the Heart

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at,
but the moment we are capable of seeing.
Joseph Wood Knotch, The Desert Year

True, whole prayer is nothing but love.
St. Augustine

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
St John Vianney